Cat Proverbs

• "If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich."
  - African Proverb

• "One should not send a cat to deliver cream"
  - Yiddish saying

• "The cat--moon eats the gray mice of night."
  - Western Europe Proverb

• "An old cat will never learn to dance."
  - Moroccan Jewish Saying

• "If a cat washes her face in front of several persons, the first person she looks at will be the first to get married."
  - Early American saying

• "In a cat's eyes all things belong to cats."
  - English saying

• "When spiders unite they can tie down a lion."
  - Ethiopian Proverb

• "When the cat's away, the mice will play."
  - Western Europe Proverb

• "If a girl treads on a cat's tail, she will not find a husband before a year is out."
  - French proverb

• "Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishings for a room."
  - French proverb

• "You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats."
  - Colonial American Proverb

• Whenever the cat of the house is black
  The lasses of lovers will have no lack.
  - Old English proverb

• "In a cat's eyes, all things belong to the cat."
  - English Proverb

• "Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter."
  - African Proverb

• "The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion."
  - Arab Proverb

• "Handsome cats and fat dung heaps are the sign of a good farmer."
  - French proverb

• "Beware of people who dislike cats."
  - Irish proverb

• "Who cares well for cats will marry as happily as he or she could ever wish."
  - French proverb

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