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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

161 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:161
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:A woman hath nine lives like a cat. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
 
Note 1.
It has been the Providence of Nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.—Pilpay: The Greedy and Ambitious Cat, fable iii. B. C. [back]