"If only cats grew into kittens."
- R. D. Stern
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens."- Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one."
- Thomas Fuller
"There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten."
- Jules Champfleury
"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."
- Agnes Repplier
"Four little Persians, but one only looked in my direction. I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts."
- George Freedley
"A Kitten is in the animal world, what a Rosebud is in the garden. "
"Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives."
- Stephen Baker
"A kitten is...mischief in mink."
- Christine Harris
"My kittens look at me like little angels - and always after doing something especially devilish."
- Jamie Ann Hunt
"The playful kitten with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half of the people one is obliged to live with in the world."
- Lady Sydney Morgan
"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it."
- Henry David Thoreau
"A true cat lover cradles a new kitten and knows that nine lives will never be nearly enough."
"Kitten mews become cat songs."
"Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet."
- Pam Brown
"When you invite a kitten into your home, you bring indoors something slightly wild, often unpredictable and always entertaining."
"Kittens--little miracles that they are--are endowed with all the natural gifts to make them perfect pets."
"Kittens can happen to anyone."
"One cat just leads to another."
- Ernest Hemingway (who had 30+ cats)
"The trouble with a kitten is that...Eventually it becomes a cat!"
- Ogden Nash
"It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens."
- Cynthia E. Varnado
"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr."
- Lewis Carroll
"Kittens and curtains. One must choose which one loves most."
- Pam Brown
