Famous quotes containing the word catches:
“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.
“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)
“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)