To catch a Tartar. [ Proverb ]

To catch the rabble.

First catch your hare. [ Mrs. Glass's advice to the housewife ]

Harm watch, harm catch. [ Proverb ]

Set a thief to catch a thief. [ Proverb ]

Sue a beggar and catch a louse. [ Proverb ]

You fish fair, and catch a frog. [ Proverb ]

To catch two pigeons with one pea. [ Proverb ]

The purple heath and golden broom
On moory mountains catch the gale.
O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume.
The violet in the vale. [ Montgomery ]

A cripple may possibly catch a hare. [ Proverb ]

That is the bird that I would catch. [ Proverb ]

A drowning man will catch at a rush. [ Proverb ]

A hook's well lost to catch a salmon. [ Proverb ]

The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold,
Held up their chalices of gold
To catch the sunshine and the dew. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A drowning man will catch at a straw. [ Proverb ]

If the sky fall, we shall catch larks. [ Proverb ]

A hook is well lost to catch a salmon. [ Proverb ]

Venture a small fish to catch a gudgeon. [ Proverb ]

We must lose a minnow to catch a salmon. [ French Proverb ]

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer - man a flower -
He dies - alas! how soon he dies! [ Dr. Johnson ]

Drumming is not the way to catch a hare. [ Proverb ]

A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal,
His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch,
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a good dog that can catch any thing. [ Proverb ]

It is not for every one to catch a salmon. [ Proverb ]

To fish with a herring, and catch a sprat. [ Proverb ]

Venture a small fish to catch a great one. [ Proverb ]

Is it an emperor's business to catch flies? [ Proverb ]

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise. [ Pope ]

He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge
May chance to catch a fall. [ Old song ]

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact. [ Burke ]

I will keep no cats that will not catch mice. [ Proverb ]

Laws catch flies, but let the hornets go free. [ Proverb ]

There is no need of a ferret to catch an harlot. [ Proverb ]

Frightening of a bird is not the way to catch it. [ Proverb ]

If you cut down the woods, you will catch the wolf. [ Proverb ]

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. [ Proverb ]

Parasites pitch up toils to catch deer in a platter. [ Proverb ]

Little dogs start the hare, but great ones catch it. [ Proverb ]

If you could run as you drink you might catch a hare. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When one runs after wit, he is sure to catch nonsense. [ Montesquieu ]

Make the young one squeak and you'll catch the old one. [ Proverb ]

If the devil catch a man idle, he will set him at work. [ Proverb ]

Throwing your cap at a bird is not the way to catch it. [ Proverb ]

Much better never to catch a rogue, than let him go again. [ Proverb ]

The little dogs hunt out the hare, but the big ones catch it. [ Italian Proverb ]

A little time may be enough to catch a great deal of mischief. [ Proverb ]

If ever I catch his cart overthrowing, I will give it one shove. [ Proverb ]

He will ill catch a bird flying that cannot keep his own in a cage. [ Proverb ]

Libertines are hideous spiders, that often catch pretty butterflies. [ Diderot ]

They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them. [ German Proverb ]

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. [ Denis Diderot ]

You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a cask of vinegar. [ Eastern Proverb ]

By robbing Peter he paid Paul ... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall. [ Rabelais ]

He that lets his fish escape into the water, may cast his net often yet never catch it again. [ Proverb ]

Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. [ Johnson ]

When you have formed your plans, be quick to execute them; one will catch his fish before another shall have baited his hook. [ E. Rich ]

Games of chance are traps to catch schoolboy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. [ Cumberland ]

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. [ Colton ]

You shall not shirk the hobbling Times to catch a ride on the sure-footed Eternities. The times (as Carlyle says) are bad; very well, you are there to make them better. [ John Burroughs ]

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. [ Seneca ]

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest high catch, and he never walked off the field. [ Yogi Berra ]

If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch, with his surcease, success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here - but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life to come. [ William Shakespeare ]

By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages. [ Hazlitt ]

Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne, and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]

Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know. He started telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: This story isn't too long. But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, Uh-oh, this story is getting long. But then the story was over, and I said to myself: You know, that story wasn't too long after all. I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]