what does it mean when somebody tells you "You have more curiosity than the proverbial cat"?
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Proverbial means from a proverb.  There is an old saying "curiosity killed the cat" - it's not exactly a proverb, but that's what the person meant when he / she said that.  Cats are notoriously curious - more than is good for them.  If you've ever owned one, it has certainly gotten into all kinds of trouble around the house I'm sure - falling into fish tanks, knocking things over etc.  \n\nCuriosity killed the cat is a well-known proverb to warn against being too inquisitive lest you come to harm.\n\nThe earliest printed reference to the origin of this proverb is attributed to British playwright Ben Jonson in his 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour (performed first by British playwright William Shakespeare).\n\n...Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, up-tails all, and a pox on the hangman.\n\nIn this instance, "care" was defined as "worry" or "sorrow."\n\nShakespeare used a similar quote in his circa 1599 play, Much Ado About Nothing:\n\nWhat, courage man! what though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.\n\nThe proverb apparently remained the same until at least 1898. E. Cobham Brewer included this definition in his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:\n\nCare killed the Cat. It is said that "a cat has nine lives," yet care would wear them all out.\n\nThe earliest known printed reference that is similar in style and meaning to the current proverb is O. Henry's short story Schools and Schools from 1909:\n\nCuriosity can do more things than kill a cat; and if emotions, well recognized as feminine, are inimical to feline life, then jealousy would soon leave the whole world catless.\n\nThe earliest known printed reference to the actual phrase occurred in The Washington Post on 4 March 1916 (page 6):\n\nCURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT.\n\nFour Departments of New York City Government Summoned to Rescue Feline.\n\nFrom the New York World.\n\nCuriosity, as you may recall—\n\nOn the fifth floor of the apartment house at 203 West 130th street lives Miss Mable Godfrey. When she came to the house about seven months ago she brought Blackie, a cat of several years' experience of life.\n\nThe cat seldom left the apartment. He was a hearth cat, not a fence cat, and did not dearly love to sing. In other respects he was normal and hence curious.\n\nLast Tuesday afternoon when Miss Godfrey was out Blackie skipped into the grate fireplace in a rear room. He had done this many times before. But he had not climbed up the flue to the chimney. This he did Tuesday. Blackie there remained, perched on the top of the screen separating the apartment flue from the main chimney, crying for assistance. Miss Godfrey, returning, tried to induce her pet to come down. If you are experienced in felinity, you know that Blackie didn't come down.\n\nOn Wednesday the cat, curiosity unsatisfied, tried to climb higher—and fell to the first floor. His cries could still be heard by Miss Godfrey; who, to effect Blackie's rescue, communicated with the following departments:\n1. Police department.\n2. Fire department.\n3. Health department.\n4. Building department.\n5. Washington Heights court.\n\nAmong them they lowered a rope to Blackie. But it availed neither the cat nor them anything.\nThursday morning, just before noon, a plumber opened the rear wall back of the chimney. Blackie was taken out. His fall had injured his back. Ten minutes later Blackie died.\n\nThe proverb, though, has been widely attributed to Eugene O'Neill who included the variation, "Curiosity killed a cat!" in his play Diff'rent from 1920:\n\nBENNY—(with a wink) Curiosity killed a cat! Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.\n\n[edit]\nCuriosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.\nThe origin of this variation is unknown. But, the earliest printed reference occurs in a horoscope printed in The Lima News (Lima, Ohio) from 14 September 1966 (pag
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I agree with the suggestion "quaere sapientiam" = seek wisdom\n\n"literate" is a variant spelling of "litterate" which can mean "elegantly", "literally", "cleverly" .\n "humaniores" is referring to those who are "more human", "more refined"\nso the phrase probably means "elegantly more refined"\n\nHowever you may have misquoted "Literae Humaniores" which refers to the study of Classics (also known as the Humanities), and may be translated as "more refined scholarship."
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I think the rest of the saying is:\n\nWhat is revealed is interesting...\n\nWhat is hidden is even more interesting!
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A person who marches to a different drum is not your average, ordinary person - he or she is a little off kilter with the rest of society.\n\nSomeone who gets a lot more than they bargained for. This phrase is used to mean that one's expectations have been exceeded, usually in a negative way. If you rented rooms to a friend and expected that they would be a nice, quiet tenant and they wound up playing their stereo very loud late at night - you got more than you bargained for.\n\ns
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Generally, it means, something like "Isn't it obvious?" \n\n"To be able to tell" something means that you have enough information to understand something.  If it's a question, it's usually meant somewhat sarcastically.  So, if it's a question, the asker is usually surprised that something isn't obvious to you, because it might be obvious to other people.
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I am more witty.  I like your use of the word cleverer.
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say this to someone---> "you are totally intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbillity."\nit means they like to hear them self talk.
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When someone says, "You're joking, he's got more sense", means that whatever that person did was kind of a "stupid" thing to do, because he has enough sense not to do something that stupid or foolish.
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it means in simple term curiosity
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Curiosity and test the other knowledge
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haha.  it could either be making fun of karmic and dogmatic beliefs, or in a literal sense it could mean that the person's karmic beliefs are more important than dogmatic beliefs.\n\nThe person may have switched from a very strict practice to something like Buddhism.
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WITH KNOWLEDGE COMES WISDOM \nTHE MORE YOU KNOW THE MORE WISDOM YOU HAVE
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ahhhhhhhhhhhh....clever question\n\nIt first appears to question one's arrogance rather than intelligence.
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Ahhh.  A question.  That means you desire information you do not have.  Reading these answers will provide you with some information and, by definition, you are being educated.  The more educated you become, the more you discover what you don't know.  The best formal education teaches you enough general information to allow you to determine what you really want to learn about.\n\nKeep asking questions.
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I don't really know what ur looking for but the saying is "the more you learn the more you can learn!" If for example you need to learn a list of things imagina your journey to school/college/work/the pub etc and place the things in the list at different places on the way - u will b surprised how much you remember when u walk through the journey in your head seeing each listed thing as an image! :)
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I'd say it's more of a, \n\n"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
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In its simplest form it means what you don't know won't hurt you.\nIt's from Thomas Gray's 1742 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and the full quote is:\nWhere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.