Mice Quotes - Page 2

• The second mouse gets the cheese!

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Witty, Iron

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

  Alexander Pope

  Soul, Poor, Holes

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.367

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• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

  Oliver Herford

  Love, Dog, Hate

  "Attributed to Oliver Herford in The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (p. 118)". 1982.

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• Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

  John Steinbeck

  Guy, Trouble, Interest

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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  If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Peace, Elephants

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014

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• Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

  Charlaine Harris

  Christmas, Dry Leaves, Holiday Traditions

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.

  John Steinbeck

  Moving, Wind, Rabbits

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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• A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

  John Steinbeck

  Snakes, Water, Shadow

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• We could live offa the fatta the lan'.

  John Steinbeck

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.236, Penguin

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• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Justice, Sides

  "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Land, Heaven

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Stranger, Shots

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Of Mice and Men”, p.51, Penguin

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• In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

  John Burroughs

  Weather, Snow, Woods

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.56

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• Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Heart, Mean

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• Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

  Robert Pierce

  Snakes, Encounters, Rodents

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• 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. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Fall, Men

  "On Being the Right Size" by J. B. S. Haldane, 1926.

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• An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Break A Leg, Elephants, Growth

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• When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse.

  Mike Royko

  Long, Driving, Said

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.360, Agate Digital

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• We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

  Henry Jenkins

  Book, Kids, Hands

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• The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it?

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Bible, God, Christian

  Reinhard Bonnke (2015). “Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days In God’s Word”, p.314, Whitaker House

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• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Cat, Bravery, Pet

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• I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Trust, Men, Ifs

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• ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Cat, Thinking

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Lunch, Sunrise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Opportunity, Numbers, Trying

  "The Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself — And All The Women Around You" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2015.

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