Top 100 A Mouse Quotes
#1. Unable to resist, she said, "Mortals also go there to worship a mouse god. His likeness is everywhere. There's a duck demigod too.
Kresley Cole
#2. But a mouse can be brave. Small as they are, though, they learn it is wiser not to challenge the cat.
Tad Williams
#3. Just remember, it all started with a mouse.
Walt Disney
#4. His head tilted to the side and humor twinkled in his dark eyes. "Turn yer back."
'Are you shy? What's wrong, big guy? Afraid to show me your Scottish bagpipe? Are ye built like a moose and hung like a mouse?
Vonnie Davis
#5. - I am a mouse! You wait till my father hears about this!
- He may think it's an improvement.
Roald Dahl
#6. 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
#8. Try a little experiment. Close your eyes and say to yourself: "I wonder what my next thought is going to be." Then become very alert and wait for the next thought. Be like a cat watching a mouse hole. What thought is going to come out of the mouse hole? Try it now.
Eckhart Tolle
#9. Hello carnivore,' said the mouse priest. He turned and bowed to Uncle Mike and Dominic. 'Hail to the High Priest of Goddammit Eat Something Already, and to the God of Hard Choices in Dark Places.' Ryan blinked. 'What?' 'It's a mouse thing, just roll with it, you'll be happier that way,' I advised.
Seanan McGuire
#10. And one of the reasons why he likes her is because she's so different from him. She's as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone. She even talks back to the Sarge, which is like watching a mouse bark at a pitbull.
M.R. Carey
#11. Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.
Suzanne Collins
#12. A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
Plautus
#13. So long as she could kill with a whisper, Arya need not be afraid of anyone ... but once she used up the last death, she would only be a mouse again.
George R R Martin
#14. What a mouse he is made by conversation,' " Ezri recited. " 'Scorns gods, dares battle, and flinches from a maid's rebuke! Merest laugh from merest girl is like a dagger felt, and like a dagger, makes a lodging of his breast. Turns blood to milkwater and courage to faint memory.'
Scott Lynch
#16. Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.
Charlotte Gray
#17. A pink razor is like a mouse, where ever it is the pussy will follow.
Helen Ellis
#18. He imagined himself a mouse descending a clear stream in half an eggshell, the master of a comet enfolding a hollow world.
Gene Wolfe
#19. This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.
Geena Davis
#20. It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size
mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures
a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin.
Rosamond Purcell
#22. Do you know how many times I've read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" to this kid? That is one fucked-up story. How is that a book for babies?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#23. This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.
Geraldine Brooks
#24. We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns. With their eye's fixed on the issues, they fail to see who is behind every scene. We Jews toy with the American public as a cat toys with a mouse.
Harold Wallace Rosenthal
#25. You couldn't catch a mouse if leaped in between your paws!
Erin Hunter
#26. Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.
Mae West
#27. Sips fuel like a mouse sipping sherry from a hypodermic needle.
Jeremy Clarkson
#28. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
Jim Butcher
#29. The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.
Michael Chabon
#30. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,
Anonymous
#31. Isn't it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#32. Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
Hanna Rosin
#33. They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
Jeanette Winterson
#34. Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.
Agatha Christie
#35. He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.
Michael Cunningham
#36. To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.
Wendell Johnson
#37. 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
#38. If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?
Haim Harari
#39. A mouse is small and can go unnoticed: but there is no limit to what a brave heart and a fearless spirit can achieve.
Brian Jacques
#40. There was something dead in my heart.
I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse.
I had a dead mouse in my heart.
Richard Brautigan
#41. Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#42. In the flat above Coraline's, under the roof, was a crazy old man with a big mustache. He told Coraline that he was training a mouse circus. He wouldn't let anyone see it.
Neil Gaiman
#43. Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallow'd house:
I am sent with broom before;
To sweep the dust behind the door.
William Shakespeare
#44. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Clement C. Moore
#46. Yes, I'm a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends, said Rirped, picking up a hunk of dried beef. He tore a off a piece with his teeth and noticed Boots hadn't moved. He pulled back his lips to reveal a row of jagged teeth and gave her a sharp hiss.
Suzanne Collins
#47. She sounded about as displeased as a cat who'd just cornered a mouse.
Marissa Meyer
#48. Well, they came the day after you did, but they made me angry, so I sent them away." Noah did not understand. "Sent them away?" Cord rejoined the conversation. "Ran them out of the house with a rifle." Noah couldn't have shown more astonishment if they'd said a mouse had killed a cat.
Ellen O'Connell
#49. Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
Sam Weller
#50. I'll be damned if I act like a mouse, you overgrown tomcat.
J.C. Daniels
#51. Shitting on a mouse is not expressly forbidden under California law.
Sue Grafton
#52. The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability!
Narendra Modi
#53. But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.
Alice Hoffman
#54. A mouse when caught in a perilous situation reacts aptly because it has such encounters on a daily basis whereas a lion, which is rarely caught in such situations, is often late in its reaction.
Ashish Jaiswal
#55. He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.
Emily Bronte
#56. We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,
Henry Jenkins
#57. It is small comfort to a mouse, if an elephant is standing on its tail, to say 'I am impartial.' In this instance, you are really supporting the elephant in its cruelty.
Desmond Tutu
#58. I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn't sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast.
Matt Czuchry
#59. The quiet is fretful, unnatural. It's what a mouse must feel as it steps from its hole and into the open blades of a meadow, never knowing what shadow might come cruising above.
Anthony Doerr
#60. The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Daddy Yankee
#62. And anyway, it never happened." I bit my lip to keep from laughing. "Nope, it didn't," he said. "Not in a house." "Not with a mouse." "Not in a box.
Melanie Harlow
#63. Don't be mad was the first thing he said. He really was terrified, as if the most frightening reaper on the planet was no scarier than a mouse, and yet put him in a tux and it was the Apocalypse.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#64. When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said 'You wanna see a mouse pull the refrigerator Out!'
George Lopez
#65. Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
Edward Lear
#66. The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.
- from an Aug. 1965 letter to Jim Roman
"On Cats
Bukowski
#67. A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop.
Bruce Beutler
#68. 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
#69. A CHILD SPOKE ABOUT HIS FEAR, LONG AGO. IT RESEMBLED A little song:
In the attic
there's a beam that hits you on the head,
there's a wind that bangs the shutters,
there's a mouse that peeps out of the corner.
Mesa Selimovic
#70. Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
Edith Sitwell
#71. Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.
Walter Isaacson
#72. This was how we'd always played.
You were Cinderella, I was a mouse.
You were Alice, I was the Hatter.
You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon.
David Levithan
#73. A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
Jean De La Fontaine
#74. One cannot make a mouse a lion." "He can think like a lion.
Pierce Brown
#75. If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle
Robert Jordan
#77. I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
Beatrix Potter
#78. 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
#79. Defending oneself by hiding behind the rules was a clever trick, like using a mouse to stampede the enemy's elephants and causing them to trample him to death.
Alan Bradley
#80. That was his favorite thing about books - they took you off to other people's lives an' places, but you could still set in your own chair by th'oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.
Jan Karon
#81. I don't believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.
Bob Menendez
#82. I sat there in the darkness, with their skin clsoe to me, and I felt lifted up and wrapped with kindness. And very small, because I didn't deserve this, but small the way a mouse in its den is small: warm and safe and protected.
Emily Horner
#83. On My Interest in Smoking Cigars You're not a cigar guy ... . Well, the first reason that jumps out at me is that you hold it like you're jerking off a mouse.
Justin Halpern
#84. I suppose it was a romantic was to perish ... for a mouse
L.M. Montgomery
#85. Walt famously said that it-- "it" being being the Disney empire--all started with a mouse, but the mouse was created because the rabbit was purloined.
Leslie Le Mon
#86. A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
Gelett Burgess
#87. It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger
Erin Hunter
#89. In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.
Martin Luther
#90. Better to be a mouse behind the wainscoting, nibbling at the wires. Better to be a spider, high up under the eaves, spinning its web.
Stephen King
#91. 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
#92. One morning she sewed while her son and husband watched television. It was so quiet that when her son released a tremendous fart, a mouse, startled from his hiding place beneath my aunt's sewing chair, ran straight up her pant leg.
Sherman Alexie
#93. Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#94. Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#95. Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!
Walt Disney
#96. The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.
Charles Spurgeon
#97. 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
#98. My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.
Marissa Mayer
#100. You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.
Aesop
