I gave an order to the cat, and the cat gave it to its tail. Chinese Saying A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. Henry David Thoreau No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln There's also a strange Creature in those Woods, call'd by the Spaniards an Ounce, much of the Form and Size of a Woolf-dog, but it has Talons, and the Head is more like a Tyger: It kills Men and Beasts, which makes travelling through the Woods dangerous. Woodes Rogers (1709) Thw way this cat set down its velvety paws as it padded softly toward us; the way it lifted its finely chiseled little head and gazed at each of us in turn with knowing, intelligent eyes..all that was the very essence of poetic, ethereal, feline grace. Ludwig Koch-Isenburg He could whip his weight in wildcats. Proverb, coined by Eugene Field A cat with kittens nearly always decides sooner or later to move them. Sidney Denham Meow is like aloha-- it can mean anything. Hank Ketchum Honest as the cat when the meat is out of reach. British Saying A cat is nobody's fool. Heywood Brown