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Cat Proverbs, Sayings & Quotes
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No matter how much cats fight, there always
seems to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
Dogs come when they're called; cats take
a message and get back to you later.
Mary Bly
There are two means of refuge from the
miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
Settling a dispute through the law is like
losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
Chinese
To live long, eat like a cat, drink like
a dog.
German
A cat has nine lives; for three he plays,
for three he strays, and for the last three he stays.
English-American
A cat with a straw tail keeps away from
fire.
English
Those that dislike cats will be carried
to the cemetery in the rain!
Dutch
After dark all cats are leopards.
Native American (Zuni)
If stretching were wealth, the cat would
be rich.
African
One should not send a cat to deliver cream
Yiddish
The cat--moon eats the gray mice of night.
Western Europe
When the cat's away, the mice will play.
Western Europe
It's for her own good that the cat purrs.
Irish
Cats don't catch mice to please Khoda(God).
Afgani
Fat cats and thin birds can share a yard,
but thin cats and fat birds no way!
Rosicrucian
Like the cat in the tree, getting caught
up in the chase can leave us in an awkward place.
Rosicrucian
The cat laps the moonbeams in the bowl
of water, thinking them to be milk.
Zen Saying
If men were now to turn their hostility
towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic
cat became a wild animal.
Nigeria
In even a cat the Buddha-nature exists.
Japanese Buddhist
It is useless to show the gold piece to
a cat.
Zen Saying
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
Irish
It's a brave bird that makes its nest in
the cat's ear.
Hindi/Indian
A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites
destruction.
Chinese
When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer
is ruined.
Iranian
Beware of the cat that licks from the front
but claws from behind.
Old English Proverb
A trapped cat becomes a lion.
Old English Proverb
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude
of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always,
dreaming dreams that have no end.
Charles Baudelaire
A cat goes to a monastery, but still she
remains a cat.
Congolese
The cat is a saint when there are no mice
about.
Japanese
The cat is a lion to the mouse.
Albanian
A house without either a cat or a dog is
the house of a scoundrel.
Portuguese
The kind man feeds his cat before sitting
down to dinner.
Hebrew
Handsome cats and fat dung heaps are the
sign of a good farmer.
French
Beware of people who dislike cats.
Irish
Who cares well for cats will marry as happily
as he or she could ever wish.
French
An old cat will not learn how to dance.
Moroccan
A cat will teach her young ones all the
tricks, except how to jump backwards.
Netherlands Antillean
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's
a hole nearby.
Nigerian
If man could be crossed with the cat, it
would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
One cat just leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway
The cat is nature's beauty.
French
The dream of cats is all mice.
Egyptian
I have studied many philosophers and many
cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
No heaven will not ever Heaven be; unless
my cats are there to welcome me.
Scottish
It is better to feed one cat than many
mice.
Norwegian
You will always be lucky if you know how
to make friends with strange cats.
Colonial
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
English
The cat does not negotiate with
the mouse.
Robert K. Massie
You see, the wire telegraph is a kind of
a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and
his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this?
And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals
here, they receive them there. The only difference is that
there is no cat.
Albert Einstein
When the cat is not home, the mice will
dance on the table.
Dutch
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing
to be done about it except put up with it until the wind
changes.
T.S. Eliot
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