# Gato

Os gatos são pequenos mamíferos carnívoros, domésticos, da família dos felídeos (Felis catus), que descendem do gato selvagem encontrado na África e Sudoeste da Ásia (Felis silvestris libyca). Foram domesticados por volta de 4.000 anos atrás, no Egito.
       - Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
          - William Bennett como citado in: Time - Volume 125 - Página 355, Briton Hadden, ‎Henry Robinson Luce - Time Incorporated,1985
    - Camille Paglia
    - Cleveland Amory
       - Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you. Rudimace always peed on our shoes.
          - W. H. Auden citado em Reflections international: the TV & TS magazine‎ - Página 28, de TransEssex (Organization) - Publicado por TransEssex, 1999
    - Charles Baudelaire
       - For there is not a man living who knows better than I that the four charms of a cat lie in its closed eyes, its long and lovely hair, its silence and even its affected love.
          - "A conversation with a cat, and others"‎ - Página 3, de Hilaire Belloc - Harper & brothers, 1931 - 227 páginas
    - Margaret Bensen
    - Maurice Burton
    - Winifred Carriere
    - Ralph Waldo Emerson
       - It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
          - Faithful Jenny Dove: and other illusions‎ - Página 57, de Eleanor Farjeon - Publicado por M. Joseph, 1963 - 159 páginas
    - Benjamin Franklin
    - There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
       - Dan Greenburg citado em "Cats Don't Always Land on Their Feet: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the Cat World‎" - Página 95, de Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - Publicado por Conari, 2002, ISBN 1573247219, 9781573247214 - 224 páginas
    - William S. Landor
       - Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places
          - Collected Stories, 1948-1986‎ - Página 53, de Wright Morris - Publicado por Harper & Row, 1986, ISBN 0060156392, 9780060156398 - 274 páginas
    - Ogden Nash
    - Provérbio chinês
    - Provérbio inglês
    - Provérbio irlandês
    - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    - Agnes A. Sandham
    - Hippolyte Taine
    - Mark Twain
    - Jeff Valdez
       - A cat is never vulgar.
          - The Tiger in the House - página 177, Por Carl Van Vechten, Edition: illustrated, Publicado por A.A. Knopf, 1921, 367 páginas
    - Louis Wain
       - The trouble with cats [...] is that they've got no tact.
          - A Wodehouse Bestiary‎ - Página 212, de P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen - publicado por Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999, ISBN 0618001867, 97806180018661999 - 329 páginas
    - Deng Xiaoping
    - Emile Zola
    - Lygia Fagundes Telles
    - Robert Lynd
    - Leonardo da Vinci
       - "Falando de pássaros e gatos‎", Roseana Kligerman Murray, Helena Alexandrino - Paulinas, 1990, ISBN 8505010949, 9788505010946 - 24 páginas
       - Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
          - Sri Aurobindo citado em "Facilitator's Manual for the Class of Nonviolence" - Página 152, Susan Ives - peaceCENTER, 2007, ISBN 0979876621, 9780979876622 - 156 páginas

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