“A muffled Cat is no good mouser.”
“That Cat is out of kind that sweet milk will not lap.”
“You can have no more of a Cat than her skin.” This proverb seems to refer to the unfitness of her flesh for food. Formerly the fur of the Cat was used in trimming coats and cloaks. The Cat-gut used for rackets, and for the fine strings of violins, is made from the dried intestines of the Cat, the larger strings being from the intestines of sheep and lambs.
“Fain would the Cat fish eat, but she is loth to wet her feet.”
“The Cat sees not the mouse ever.”
“When the Cat winketh, little wots the mouse what the Cat thinketh.”
“Though the Cat winks a while, yet sure she is not blind.”
“Well might the Cat wink when both her eyes were out?”
“How can the Cat help it, if the maid be a fool?” Which means how can it help breaking or stealing that which is left in its way?
“That that comes of a Cat will catch mice.”