Money, Western proverb

Money is like an eel in the hand.

- Western proverb

Wisdom, Chinese Proverb

A good rat will not injure the grain near its own hole.

- Chinese Proverb

Belief, Linda Ellerbee

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

- Linda Ellerbee (1944- )

Animal, Nigerian Proverb

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.

- Nigerian Proverb

Cat, Halle Berry as Catwoman from Catwoman (2004)

Cats come when they feel like it. Not when they're told.

- Halle Berry as Catwoman from Catwoman (2004)

Foe, Turkish Proverb

Be your enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.

- Turkish Proverb

Cat, English Proverb

A cat has nine lives.

- English Proverb

Care, English Proverb

Care killed the cat.

- English Proverb, Western Proverb

Abundance, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

Beauty, Zhuangzi

毛嬙、麗姬，人之所美也，魚見之深入，鳥見之高飛，麋鹿見之決驟。

- 莊子, 齊物論

Mao Qiang(毛嬙) and Li Ji(麗嬉) were accounted by men to be most beautiful, but when fishes saw them, they dived deep in the water from them; when birds, they flew from them aloft; and when deer saw them, they separated and fled away.

- Zhuangzi (莊子), The Adjustment of Controversies (齊物論)

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Solitude·Self-reliance, Zhuangzi

儵魚出遊從容，是魚樂也。

- 莊子 秋水

These thryssas come out, and play about at their ease - that is the enjoyment of fishes.

- Zhuangzi (莊子), The Floods of Autumn (秋水)

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Dog, Marilyn Monroe

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)