By way of introduction

"Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion"
F.A. Paradis de Moncrif

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

"A cat has absolute honesty"
Ernest Hemmingway

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this"
Anonymous

"Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse"
Robert A. Heinlein

"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be"
Elizabeth Peters

"The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity"
Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon