The Josie Gallery

"A pharoah's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a questionmark."

-Louis MacNeice

 

"I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely and snugly encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, the gesture, and so self-satisfied - so complacent."

-Anne Morrow Lindberg

 

The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.

"The Cat and the Moon," William Butler

 

"For he purrs in thankfulness when God tells him he is a good cat."

-Christopher Smart

 

"She walks her chosen path by our side; but our ways are not her ways, our influence does not even remotely reach her."

-Agnes Repplier

 

I am the cat of cats. I am
The everlasting cat!
Cunning, and old, and sleek as jam,
The everlasting cat!

"The Cat of Cats," William Brighty

 

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of."

-Sir Walter Scott

 

"Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?"

-Lilian Jackson Braun

 

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!"

-Theophile Gautier

 

"There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience."

-Allen and Ivy Dodd

 

And my personal favorite...

 

"The cat, like the genius, draws into itself as into a shell except in the atmosphere of congeniality, and this is the secret of its remarkable and elusive personality."

-Ida M. Mellen

 

 

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