May Sarton Quotes

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

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; if i am - he'll think of something

A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.

My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.

I'm afraid I'm not personally qualified to confuse cats, but I can recommend an extremely good service.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.

I'm a cat, and you have to earn my trust.

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?