African
-
If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich.
Albanian
- A cat is a
lion to a mouse.
Arabian
- A cat bitten
once by a snake dreads even rope.
Arabian
-The cat was created when the lion
sneezed.
British
- If you
stared deep into a cat's eyes, you would be able to see into the world of
spirits.
Chinese
- 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.
Dutch
- Those who dislike cats will be carried
to the cemetery in the rain.
Egyptian
- An
overdressed woman is like a cat dressed in saffron.
English
- 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.
French
- Handsome
cats and fat dungheapsare the sign of a good farmer
French
- The dog may be wonderful prose, but
only the cat is poetry.
Indian
- 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.
Irish
- 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
- To please
himself only the cat purrs.
Irish
- Who would
believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?
Norwegian
- It is better to feed one cat than many
mice. -
Persian
- When the cat and mouse agree, the
grocer is ruined. -
Portugese
- A house
without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. -
Spanish
- 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.
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