Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.
A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.