RON HENGGELER

January 19, 2025
Cats and Quotes 

In October 2024, I adopted three cats from SF Animal Care & Control. The three cats are sisters and look almost identical. After months of living with them, I still have trouble telling them apart. They were brought into the shelter after one of them had been hit by a car on the Great Highway at Ocean Beach. Their names are Sandy, Ocean, and Beach. These photos of the three sisters were taken since October.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

Emile Auguste Chartier

A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world.

Irish Legend

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Jules Verne

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Rod McKuen

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted--but his or her entertainment value.

Geoffrey Household

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

Anonymous

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends . . .

Saki (H. H. Munro)

You can't help that. We're all mad here.

The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.

Louis F. Camuti, DVM

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

French Proverb

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

Unknown

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe murderer.

Paula Poundstone

Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe her.

Lynn Hollyn

A cat can purr its way out of anything.

Donna McCrohan

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

Dan Greenberg

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

George Will

A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs.

Sarah Thompson

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.

Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,

For, wander and wail as he would,

The pure cold light in the sky

Troubled his animal blood.

Minnaloushe runs in the grass

Lifting his delicate feet.

Do you dance, Minnaloushe,

do you dance?

William Butler Yeats

There are no ordinary cats.

Colette

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

French Proverb

Honest as the Cat when the meat's out of reach.

Old English saying

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.

Carl Van Vechten

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

Pam Brown

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

William Lyon Phelps

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

Leo Dworken

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Wesley Bates

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.

Anonymous

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

George F. Will

There are few things in life more heart warming than to be welcomed by a cat.

Tay Hohoff

Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration--and get between you and it. 

Arthur Bridges

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

P. G. Wodehouse

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Rebecca West

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer