"I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

“Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.”

“To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.”

“If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.”

“Even snakes are afraid of snakes.”

“The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.”

“Cats invented self-esteem.”

“One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]”

“When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.”