Cleveland Amory

“One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.”

“You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.”

“A person has an idea about foreign policy or doesn't know one’s arse from one’s elbow.”

“Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.”

“You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to do is to wrap theirselves up in mystery, perhaps only except for a hobby of jumbling up everything that is in order. And if the cat can, and usually so, make a great mystery of where it was when you were searching for it even if a moment ago it was sitting by your side, do not have any doubts: its ancestors had a great pleasure to surround its origin by mystery.”

“You won't find the word happy in any self-respecting grumbler's dictionary, no matter it's Christmas Eve or the any other day.”

“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”