You can kid the world, but not your sister.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.