Mice Quotes - Page 22

• A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.

  Louis Wain

  Cat, Two, Paws

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• You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

  Amy Welborn

  Prayer, Knees, Praying

  Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Money, Wife

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• The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dresses, Attention, Want

  "Edith Sitwell: Fire of the Mind : an Anthology" by Elizabeth Salter, (p. 176), 1976.

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• What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Battle, Frogs

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• Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician? That reminds me of the famous story about Squeaky the Chicago Mouse. It seems that Squeaky was floating on his back along the Chicago River one day. Approaching the Michigan Avenue lift bridge, he called out: Raise the bridge! I have an erection!

  Roger Ebert

  Powerful, Reality, Bridges

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• Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no denial; come, we must have a trialfor really, this morning, I've nothing to dosuch a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the curwithout jury or judge would be wasting our breathI'll be judge, I'll be jurysaid cunning old furyI'll try the whole cause and condemn youto death

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Law, Judging

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• And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

  Walt Whitman

  Miracle, Leaves Of Grass, Enough

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.41, NYU Press

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• I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

  Mort Walker

  Running, Believe, Car

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• If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Animal, Men

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• The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Cat, Government, Games

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• A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

  Ethan Gilsdorf

  Cat, Self, Play

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• People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

  Dick Van Patten

  Snakes, People, And Love

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• Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Advertising, Building, Breakthrough

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• ...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Dog, Zebras

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• Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Play, Doe

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• The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

  Al Swearengen

  Church, Way

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• We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

  David Brin

  Elephants, Long, Mammals

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Doctrine, Traps

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• Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Dog, Lying

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• The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things.

  John C. Dvorak

  People, Use, Want

  Review of the Macintosh, The San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984.

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• The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

  Horace

  Mountain, Littles, Birth

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• It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Fall, 4th Of July

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

  Jef Raskin

  Jobs, Hate, Ideas

  "Programmers At Work". Book by Susan M. Lammers, 1986.

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• There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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