Cat Quote by Tobias Smollett Download Open image “There is not room to swing a cat.” — Tobias Smollett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cat Rooms Swings
Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding all this furniture, there was still room to turn around in, but not to swing a cat in, at least with entire security… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“(I love that expression. “Swing a dead cat.” Where the hell did it come from? Was swinging dead cats a thing at some point?)” — Leslie Irish Evans Copy Share Image
The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone. — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
“What passes for wine among us, is not the juice of the grape. It is an adulterous mixture, brewed up of nauseous ingredients, by… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”…… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image