Review: Thoroughly enjoyable collection
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
Quotes from Lilian Jackson Braun, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Heinlein, Mark Twain and many many more are beautifully collected in this slim tome, starting, most purr-fectly, with Ellen Perry Berkeley's comment, "As every cat owner knows, nobody own a cat." Independent, beautiful, dignified... ah, says Leonardo da Vinci, "The smallest feline is a masterpiece." But cats are mysterious too, and not just when they're called Mr. Mistoffelees.  As Natsume Soseki points out, "Nobody know anything about cats, who is not himself a cat."The quotes come from all around the world. They're organized neatly into topics that flow from one to the next. They're endlessly intriguing, funny, haunting, evocative, and even informative. Charles Baudelaire liked cats--who would have guessed? And Picasso too?The subtle language of cats, the relationships between cats, kittens, humans, dogs and even mice--"The cat does not negotiate with the mouse," says Robert K. Massie. Have fun. Enjoy. This is a truly enjoyable little book for cat-lovers.Disclosure: It was free so I bought it.