Mousetrap Quotes

#1. No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#2. A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?

Julian Tuwim

#3. 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

#4. Mankind invented the atomic bomb,
but no mouse would ever construct
a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

#5. The object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Julius Lester

#6. Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

A.G. Gaston

#7. One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Kin Hubbard

#8. The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

Daymond John

#9. You see a mousetrap; I see free cheese and a fucking challenge!

Scroobius Pip

#10. Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.

Thomas Howes

#11. could tell that one of the Russian proverbs he loved was on the way. 'The only place with free cheese is a mousetrap

A.D. Miller

#12. We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.

Jason Kilar

#13. At its deepest level, creativity is not about building a better mousetrap. It's about freeing the mouse.

Victor Shamas

#14. If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Lawrence Block

#15. I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

Anna Quindlen

#16. If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

George Gobel

#17. In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Saki

#18. Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

Jeanette Winterson

#19. The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.

Ian Fleming

#20. Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Ronald Reagan

#22. Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

James D. Carswell

#23. Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#24. Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap

Chet Raymo

#25. Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it; it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.

Denham Sutcliffe

#26. Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#27. Just when you've squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap

Tom Holt

#28. A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the world to beat a path to our dear. You've got to build a market for your book.

Larry Winget

#30. There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

Tom Waits

#31. If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people ...

Lee Clow

#32. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time.

Paul Auster

#34. Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge ... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.

Steve Maraboli

#35. You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs

Chris Cleave