PROVERBS: If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich. - African A cat is a lion to a mouse. - Albanian A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. - Arabic If you stared deep into a cat's eyes, you would be able to see into the world of spirits. - British All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws. - Chinese A cat assures its owner of good luck. - Chinese Happy owner, happy cat. Indifferent owner, reclusive cat. - Chinese He who rides the tiger finds it difficult to dismount. - Chinese You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. - Colonial American Those who dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain. - Dutch An overdressed woman is like a cat dressed in saffron. - Egyptian In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. - English A cat in grass is a tiger in the jungle. - English Dogs remember faces, cats places. - English The cat has nine lives - three for playing, three for straying, and three for staying. - English For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses. - English Handsome cats and fat dungheaps are the sign of a good farmer - French If cats had wings there would be no ducks in the lake. - Indian That cat that has its mouth burned by drinking hot milk will not drink even buttermilk without first blowing upon it. - Indian A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. - Indian The cat is magical and the bringer of good luck. - Indian Beware of people who dislike cats. - Irish Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat. - Irish To kill a cat brings seventeen years of bad luck. - Irish superstition To please himself only the cat purrs. - Irish It is better to feed one cat than many mice. - Norwegian proverb When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined. - Persian A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. - Portugese It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish The cat always leaves a mark on his friend. - Spanish When moving to a new home, always put the cat through the window instead of the door, so that it will not leave. - U.S. Superstition A cat's a cat and that's that. - U.S. folk saying ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Main Page Cats Home Tiger Home |
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