Cat Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Cat


A cat may look at a king. Title of a Pamphlet. (Published 1652).	1
Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got! Henry Carey—The Dragon of Wantley. Act II. Sc. 1.	2
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn’t room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg. “You know, Trotwood, I don’t want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me!” Dickens—David Copperfield. Vol. II. Ch. VI.	3
Confound the cats! All cats—alway— Cats of all colours, black, white, grey; By night a nuisance and by day— Confound the cats! Orlando Thos. Dobbin—A Dithyramb on Cats.	4
The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice. Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard’s Almanac.	5
The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.	6
It has been the providence of nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one. Pilpay—Fable III.	7