1.
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.
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Do not be akin to the feline who hankered after a fish yet was apprehensive to moisten his claws.
2.
Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never
could remember how to begin.
A. A. Milne
3.
A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.
Louis Wain
4.
Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.
Brian Jacques
5.
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
6.
She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
Dorothy Parker
7.
Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.
Maureen O'Sullivan
8.
Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Terry Pratchett
9.
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
C. S. Lewis
10.
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Douglas Coupland
11.
There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.
Erin Hunter
12.
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members
Elliott Smith
13.
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.
Doris Lessing
14.
You cannot live with a paw in each world.
Erin Hunter
16.
He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!
Brian Jacques
17.
You couldn't catch a mouse if leaped in between your paws!
Erin Hunter
18.
I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
Jonathan Safran Foer
19.
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.
Edward Hoagland
20.
As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.
Scott Adams
21.
Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
22.
Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.
Stephen King
23.
The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
Anais Nin
25.
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan of pleasure. A massage from Mimi was a fantastic experience, and she felt like a kitten who just wanted to purr and wave its paws around.
Steig Larsson
26.
Trust me, Yorkies leave paw prints on your heart.
Cindy Adams
27.
I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.
George Meredith
28.
The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
Sarah Monette