We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
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Who will bell the cat
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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
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A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.
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The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
man friend cat
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save The cat.. You would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.
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The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
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If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.
laugh cat tree
Charlie Woman.. Woe-man.. Whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats.. They made me horny, on Saturday morning.. Girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins.. I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane.. Get me off this crazy thing.. Called love.
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Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.
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Any great truth can and eventually will be expressed as a cliche a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
man learn cat
.. But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.
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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
law losing cat
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?
play cat
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
kind difference understand radio cat head
The scalded cat fears even cold water.
fears water cat cold
One cat just leads to another.
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The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal.
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