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Quote:What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:The sleeping fox catches no poultry.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.[Dave Barry]

Quote:Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.[Dave Barry]

Quote:The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.[Confucius]

Quote:Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.]

Quote:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. [Malcolm Forbes]



Definitions of: catch

Definition: To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

Definition: To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.

Definition: To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.

Definition: Hence: To insnare; to entangle.

Definition: To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.

Definition: To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.

Definition: To engage and attach; to please; to charm.

Definition: To get possession of; to attain.

Definition: To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

Definition: To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.

Definition: To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.

Definition: Act of seizing; a grasp.

Definition: That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

Definition: The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.

Definition: That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.

Definition: Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.

Definition: Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

Definition: A slight remembrance; a trace.

Definition: A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

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