Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.