Rules For The Cat

Curiosity killed the cat. - English Proverb

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. - Arab Proverb

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katharine Hepburn

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. - Mark Twain

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. - Denis Waitley

Rule number one: if it's not good, don't share it. - Christin Kardos

Women's clothes: never wear anything that panics the cat. - P.J. O'Rourke

If the cat sits long enough at the hole, it will catch the mouse. - Irish proverb

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. - Paul Ehrlich

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today. - Lewis Carroll

A lame cat is better than a swift horse when rats infest the palace. - Chinese Proverb

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. - Groucho Marx

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. - Aaron Burr

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. - Unknown

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. - Warren Eckstein

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain

Sleep is like my cat. I can call him by his name, but he still won't come to me. - Shane Koyczan

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W Somerset Maugham

I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife), but still my own. - Si Robertson

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. - Julius Caesar

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. - Andre Norton

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. - Charles Darwin

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein

The best rule of thumb for character is to remember that if you can't be big, don't belittle. - Unknown

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty: "Who cares?" - Tina Fey

A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded, "Take me to the Canaries." - Bob Monkhouse

The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. - Francois Truffaut

Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you: that action on your part which best conserves the interest of your patient. - Martin H. Fischer

We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore. - Mark Zuckerberg

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles. - Steven Wright

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90 percent probability you'll get it wrong. - Andy Rooney

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. - Oscar Wilde