#purr

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#chase #come #feet #him #ignore

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction. ↗

— Wayne White

#failures #magnitude #nobody #our #part

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. ↗

— Martin Delany

#bestow #cat #everyone #favorite #meet

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ↗

— Monica Edwards

#case #dealing #device #happiness #her