If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
Conversation, n. : A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.
Tension pulled my eyes open when her fingers traced a trail down my neck. Sensation blossomed, and I threw my head back and sucked in the air. Her arm slipped around my waist, catching me before I fell.
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.
So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark
For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold. " And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.
Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.
The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of mine would dare be a boy. ” It was a long-standing argument. “Boy,” replied Conall. “Any child as difficult as this one has been from the start must, perforce, be male. ” Alexia snorted. “As if my daughter would be calm and biddable. ” Conall grinned, catching one of her hands and bringing it in for a kiss, all prickly whiskers and soft lips. “Very good point, wife. Very good point.
Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.
There is nothing so catching as refinement.
He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.
Crocodiles. I’ve been catching them since I was nine. No problem.