"I sleep with two cats and the touch of their fur brushing against my naked skin is among the most beautiful sensations I can think of. They calm me, these animals who could be wild but choose not to be, who go outside to kill and lounge around, then come home every day for the food I provide and for my touch. They bridge me over to that animal country from which I came, a place in which the body poses no questions, only needs."      - Alison Hawthorne Deming

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau

... I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.    -- Colette

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.    -- English Proverb

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.     -- George Bird Evans

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.     -- Agnes Repplier

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain

The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.     -- Mark Twain

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.  -- John Webster

Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!     -- Steven Wright   Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.     -- Friedrich Nietzsche   Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga—stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.      -- Edward Hoagland  Animals often strike us as passionate machines.     -- Eric Hoffer   I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason—as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.       -- Friedrich Nietzsche

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.    -- George Orwell

Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for that that stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.       -- S.I. Hayakawa

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.      -- James Thurber