Ko-Ko the Cat's Diary
My favorite quotes.
“There are no ordinary cats.” — Colette |
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” — Colette |
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: Music and cats.” — Albert Schweitzer |
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” — Leonardo da Vinci |
“I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.” — William Shakespeare |
“What greater gift than the love of a cat?” — Charles Dickens |
“One cat just leads to another.” — Ernest Hemingway |
“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 |
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.” — Albert Einstein |
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein |
“I was sad one day and went for a walk; I sat in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition and came near. It often does not take more than that to help at times — to just be close to creatures who are so full of knowing, so full of love that they don't — chat, they just gaze with their marvelous understanding.” — Saint John of the Cross |
“Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.” — George Eliot |
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” — Mahatma Gandhi |
“Never, never be afraid to do what is right, especially if the well-being of a person or an animal is at stake...” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.” — George Bernard Shaw |
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt |
“If anyone excludes God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, they may deal in the same way with persons in their life.” — Anonymous |