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| A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion. | 1 |
| A bawbee cat may look at a king. | 2 |
| A blate cat makes a proud mouse. | 3 |
| A cat may look at a king. German, Dutch. | 4 |
| A cat pent up becomes a lion. Italian. | 5 |
| A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat. Italian. | 6 |
| A cat that meweth much catcheth but few mice. Dutch. | 7 |
| A mewing cat is never a mouser. Spanish. | 8 |
| A mittened cat was never a good hunter. | 9 |
| All cats are alike gray in the night. | 10 |
| All cats are not to be set down for witches. French. | 11 |
| An old cat laps as much as a young kitten. | 12 |
| An old cat likes young mice. Modern Greek. | 13 |
| Cat after cat kind. | 14 |
| Cats eat what hussies spare. | 15 |
| Cats hide their claws. | 16 |
| Don’t look for five feet on a cat. Don Quixote. | 17 |
| He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet. | 18 |
| He who puts by for the night puts by for the cat. | 19 |
| He’s like a singed cat, better than he’s likely. | 20 |
| Honest is the cat when the meat is out of reach. | 21 |
| How can the cat help it if the maid be a fool. Italian. | 22 |
| I will keep no more cats than will catch mice. | 23 |
| It is the cat and the dog that go where they are not called. Turkish. | 24 |
| It takes a good many mice to kill a cat. Danish. | 25 |
| Keep no more cats than will catch mice. | 26 |
| Muffled cats are not good mousers. | 27 |
| Neither red-haired cat or dog is good. Spanish. | 28 |
| Never was a mewing cat a good mouser. Italian. | 29 |
| Never was cat or dog drowned that could but see the shore. | 30 |
| No one gives a cat to a hyena to keep. Western Africa. | 31 |
| Singed cats live long. German. | 32 |
| The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend. Spanish. | 33 |
| The cat and dog may kiss yet are none the better friends. | 34 |
| The cat broke the china. | 35 |
| The cat hath eaten her count. | 36 |
| The cat in gloves catches no mice. | 37 |
| The cat invites the mouse to a feast. | 38 |
| The cat is a good friend but scratches. Spanish, Portuguese. | 39 |
| The cat is absent, the mice dance. Modern Greek. | 40 |
| The cat is hungry when a crust contents her. | 41 |
| The cat is in the cream pot. | 42 |
| The cat is in the dove house. Spanish. | 43 |
| The cat knows whose lips she licks. | 44 |
| The cat loves fish but is loth to wet her feet. Italian, German. | 45 |
| The cat sees not the mouse ever. | 46 |
| The cat steals the rice and the dog comes and eats it. Chinese. | 47 |
| The cat well knows whose beard she licks. Portuguese. | 48 |
| The cat’s curse hurts the mice less than her bite. Livonian. | 49 |
| The cats that drive away mice are as good as those that catch them. German. | 50 |
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| The liquorish cat gets many a rap. | 51 |
| The more you stroke the cat’s back the more she sets up her tail. Italian. | 52 |
| The scalded cat (or dog) dreads cold water. Italian, Spanish. | 53 |
| There is a cat in the meal tub. | 54 |
| They that bourd wi’ cats, maun count upo’ scarts. | 55 |
| They whip the cat if our mistress does not spin. Spanish. | 56 |
| Though the cat wink awhile, yet sure she is not blind. | 57 |
| Thou wilt get nae mair o’ the cat but the skin. | 58 |
| To a good cat a good rat. French. | 59 |
| To buy a cat in a poke. French. | 60 |
| Wanton kittens make sober cats. | 61 |
| “We are all well placed” said the cat, when she was seated on the bacon. Danish. | 62 |
| Well might the cat wink when both her eyes were out. | 63 |
| When cat and mouse agree the farmer has no chance. Danish. | 64 |
| When cats are mousing they don’t mew. Dutch. | 65 |
| When the cat’s away the mice will play. French, German, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese. | 66 |
| When the cat sleeps the mice play. Dutch. | 67 |
| When the cat’s away it’s jubilee to the mice. Dutch. | 68 |
| When the cat winketh, little wots the mouse what the cat thinketh. | 69 |
| When the weasel and a cat make a marriage it is a very ill presage. | 70 |
| Which is the cat and which the rat? Hassan, Rajah of Borneo asked this question of Mr. Brooke, referring to the relative strength of England and Holland. | 71 |
| Who is born of a cat will run after mice. | 72 |
| Who will not feed the cats, must feed the mice and rats. German. | 73 |
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