Mice Quotes

“The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.”

“MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.”

“The city mouse lives in a house,
The garden mouse lives in a bower”

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“A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws and silver eye”

“The early bird may catch the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”

“It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's eare.”

“When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.”

“The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as thev did budge
From rascals worse than they.”

“The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.”

“A cube of cheese no larger than a die
May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.”

“I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek.
That hath but oon hole for to sterte to.”

“I think if she lived in
A little shoe-house —
That little old woman was
Surely a mouse!”

“Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.”

“If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

“You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.”

“We cannot model everything in the mouse. If we want to move stem cell therapies from the lab to clinics and from the mouse to humans, we need to understand what these primate cells can and can't do. We need to study them in humans, including human embryos.”

“"Once on a time there was a mouse," quoth she,
"Who sick of worldly tears and laughter, grew
Enamoured of a sainted privacy;
To all terrestrial things he bade adieu,
And entered, far from mouse, or cat, or man,
A thick-walled cheese, the best of Parmesan."”

“But, mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men,
      Gang aft a-gly,
An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain,
      For promis'd joy.”