- 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
- 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
- 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
- As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. Ellen Perry Berkeley
- If you play with a cat, you must not mind her scratch. Yiddish
- 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
- He who does not feed his cat will feed rats.
- Dogs are dogs, but cats are people.
- 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
- Life’s like cat vomit; if you don’t clean it up you’re going to step in it. Xnterna
- 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
- 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
- Dogs see people as companions; cats see people as staff.
- It is better to feed one cat than many mice. Norwegian