Mice Quotes - Page 3

• The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

  Robert K. Massie

  Cat, Doe

  Robert K. Massie (2012). “Peter the Great: His Life and World”, p.558, Random House

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• Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

  Oswald Barron

  Cat, Belief, Preserves

  Oswald Barron (1924). “Day in and Day Out”

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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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• Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.

  Richey Edwards

  Fear, Europe, Barbie

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• Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ice Cream, Flavor, Green

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• When mice run, cats give chase.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hilarious, Running, Cat

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.16, MIRA

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• With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Nests, Ruins

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are “Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place.” There is a great deal of comfort in those words.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Farewell, Son

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• If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty [Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods] that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Religious, Errors

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• You're a mouse studying to be a rat.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sarcastic, Rats, Study

  Quoted in Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners (1953)

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Dream, Clothes

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• I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

  Rick Riordan

  Garden, Hunting, Museums

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cat, Trying, Add

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.561, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Letting Go, Wrestling, Blue

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.167, Macmillan

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• My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

  Benjamin De Casseres

  Running, Atheist, Philosophy

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• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

  Charles Darwin

  Flower, Cat, Humble

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• Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

  Holly Black

  Cat, Voice, Delight

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• The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humility, Caring, Men

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• The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cat, Sacrifice, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

  Robert Burns

  Pain, Disappointment, Grief

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• In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.

  Douglas A. Warner III

  Inspirational, Educational, Loyal Customers

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• A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should distract from a wizard's dignity.

  Donita K. Paul

  Wizards, Hats, Lap

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• Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?' That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.' Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.

  Donita K. Paul

  Dog, Cat, Simple

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.274, WaterBrook

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• Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Ducks, Example

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• Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

  Julian Barnes

  Real, Skeletons, People

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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