“No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.” --Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
“One cat just leads to another.” --Ernest Hemingway
“Cats invented self-esteem.” --Erma Bombeck
Judging from the amount of thought devoted over the centuries to figuring out what goes through their furry little heads, it is probably safe to say that cats fascinate more human beings than any member of the animal kingdom, with the possible exception of dogs, horses, and other human beings,” begins this delightful collection. Charles Elliott has created a cat book of a different color, sifting through the multitude of writings about felines to include only those quotes “made memorable by their seriousness, humor, perceptiveness or ingenuity.” Here is an unexpectedly wide range of writers and personalities. There are classic sayings from:
Elizabeth Bishop * Erma Bombeck * Lewis Carroll Geoffrey Chaucer * William Churchill * Colette George Eliot * James Herriott * P. D. James Rudyard Kipling * Doris Lessing * Herman Melville Nancy Mitford * Damon Runyon * Mark Twain John Updike * H. G. Wells * And many more
