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It has been the providence of nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one. - Bidpai (Pilpay) It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. - Bidpai (Pilpay), The Greedy and Ambitious Cat (fable iii) Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got! - Henry Carey, The Dragon of Wantley (act II, sc. 1) Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?" - Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. II, ch. VI) Confound the cats! All cats--alway-- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey; By night a nuisance and by day-- Confound the cats! - Rev. Orlando Thomas Dobbin, A Dithyramb on Cats If 'twere not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live. - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer") The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice. - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? - Thomas Gray, On the Death of a Favorite Cat Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. - Dan Greenburg One cat just leads to another. - Ernest Hemingway Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. - James Herriot (f/k/a James Alfred Wright) The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. - John Heywood, Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI) Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in. - Will Rogers For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. - Christopher Smart His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate. - Sir William Watson (2), An Epitaph If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. - Alfred North Whitehead Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice. - Deng Xiaoping It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. - Deng Xiaoping
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