A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

How do you stop a cat from scratching your furniture? Give her scratch and win lotto tickets.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.