CAT

Related Subject: Animal

1. Who is to bell the Cat? It is easy to propose impossible remedies.—AESOP, Belling the Cat
   

2. An old cat laps as much milk as a young.—WILLIAM CAMDEN, Remains
   

3. Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote

4. There wasn't room to swing a cat there.—DICKENS,David Copperfield
   

5. Confound the cats! All cats—alway—
   Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;
   By night a nuisance and by day—
   Confound the cats!—ORLANDO DOBBIN, A Dithyramb on Cats
   

6. The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

7. There are more ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.—CHARLES KINGSLEY, Westward Ho!
   

8. To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.—MOLIERE, L'Etourdi
   

9. When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?—MONTAIGNE, Essays
   

10. It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.—PILPAY, The Greedy Cat
    

11. Keep no more cats than will catch mice.—Proverb
    

12. When all candles be out all cats be grey.—Proverb
    

13. When the cat's away The mice will play.—Proverb
    

14. A cat may look on a king.—Proverb
    

15. He's like a cat; fling him which way you will, he'll light on his legs.—Proverb
    

16. A good cat deserves a good rat.—Proverb
    

17. An old cat sports not with her prey.—Proverb
    

18. Cats hide their claws.—Proverb
    

19. A harmless necessary cat.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

20. I like little Pussy, her coat is so warm,
    And if I don't hurt her, she'll do me no harm.—JANE TAYLOR, I Like Little Pussy