“Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.”
Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
Act i, Scene 3. Comparable to "Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat", George Wither, "Poem on Christmas"
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
“Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.”
Poem on Christmas; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Hang sorrow! care ’ll kill a cat", Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act i. Sc. 3.
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Lyrics
“Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats”
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 10 (1842).
Context: Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles,
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.
“S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!”
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“Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back.”
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“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
I Have A Pony (1985)
“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”
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Source: Tithe
“Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.”
John Wolcot (1738–1819) English satirist
Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).