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Cat Proverbs (from catquotes.com)
* “You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.” - Colonial proverb
* “In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.” - English proverb
* “Beware of people who dislike cats.” - Irish proverb
* “An old cat will not learn how to dance.” - Moroccan Proverb
* “After dark all cats are leopards.” - Native American Proverb
* A cat may look at a king. - English Proverb
* Happy owner, happy cat. Indifferent owner, reclusive cat. - Chinese Proverb
* A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays. - English Proverb
* “Happy is the home with at least one cat” - Italian Proverb
* “The cat was created when the lion sneezed” - Arabian Proverb
* “Curiosity killed the cat, Satisfaction brought it back!” - English Proverb
* “Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishing for a room” - French Proverb
* “I gave an order to a cat, and the cat gave it to its tail” - Chinese Proverb
* “Cats, flies and women are ever at their toilets” - French Proverb
* “The dog for the man, the cat for the woman” - English Proverb
* “Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the holy Circle; thou art indeed…the Great Cat.” - Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
* “The cat who frightens the mice away is as good as the cat who eats them” - German proverb
* “A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope” - Arab Proverb
* “A cat may go to a monastery, but she still remains a cat” - Ethiopian proverb
* “Ye shall not possess any beast, my dear sisters, except only a cat.” - The Ancren Riewle (Nun’s Rule)
* “The cat is nature’s Beauty.” - French Proverb
* “When rats infest the Palace a lame cat is better than the swiftest horse.” - Chinese Proverb
