Eric Zuza > Eric's Quotes

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
― Mark Twain

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
― Mark Twain

“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
― Colette

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
― Jean Cocteau

“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 Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
― Albert Camus