A könyv minden fejezete egy idézettel kezdődik. Gondoltam, érdemes kigyűjteni őket:
1. „Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
George Eliot
2. „A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
Mark Twain
3. „What greater gift than the love of a cat?”
Charles Dickens
4. „Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
James Herriot
5. „One cat just leads to another.”
Ernest Hemingway
6. „The real measure of a day's heat is the length of a sleeping cat.”
Charles J. Brady
7. „I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
Hippolyte Taine
8. „Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.”
Winifred Carriere
9. „A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.”
Hazel Nicholson
10. „A cat is always on the wrong side of the door.”
Anonymous
11. „There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
Albert Schweitzer
12. „Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
Colette
13. „The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.”
Ernest Menaul
14. „Dogs have owners. Cats have stuff.”
Unknown
15. „If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.”
J. A. McIntosh
16. „Which is more beautiful, feline movement or feline stillness?”
Elizabeth Hamilton
17. „People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around.”
Susan Easterly
18. „It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.”
Eleanor Farjeon
19. „Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world: the clock and the cat.”
Emile Auguste Chartier
20. „I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
Jean Cocteau
21. „The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
22. „You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.”
Sir Harry Swanson
A képen Dr. Dosa és Oscar látható, utóbbi a szokott helyén, a nővérpulton üldögél.
