A thing of beauty is a boy forever.

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

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

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.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

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

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.

Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.

A cat is never vulgar.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?