Quotes About Mice

#1. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

William Steig

#2. Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.

David Parnas

#3. I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#4. 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

#5. The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

Bob Hope

#6. She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.

Kathryn Lasky

#7. Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.

Lauren Oliver

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.

Woody Allen

#11. It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls came to hunt. The sky was now the color Elv liked best - a tender dark blue, falling to earth like ashes.

Alice Hoffman

#12. We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.:
Glitch snorted. More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.

Darynda Jones

#13. The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Flann O'Brien

#14. Three blind mice ... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt
They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving
knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three ... blind ... mice?

Daniel Keyes

#15. When mice run, cats give chase.

Rachel Vincent

#16. If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.

John Steinbeck

#17. I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.

John Steinbeck

#18. A Man Is Known By The Mice He Keeps

Ken Kesey

#19. Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.

Terre Thaemlitz

#20. 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

#21. He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies ... but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

Rudyard Kipling

#22. Cinderella was the first fairy tale I remember - the one I was most obsessed with because of the gowns and magic and pretty shoes. Yes, her home life was less than ideal - and considering the talking mice and birds, she probably needed serious therapy.

Cindi Madsen

#23. Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

Paul Greengard

#24. When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

Walt Disney

#25. Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.

Van Morrison

#26. It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

Henry Van Dyke

#27. The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

Warren Eyster

#28. I don't care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

Deng Xiaoping

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

Mortimer Zuckerman

#30. Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

Marty Rubin

#31. You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.

Olav Thon

#32. Why, Yrael?" it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. "Why?"
"Life," said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. "Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

Garth Nix

#33. You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.

Victoria Clayton

#34. Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.

Kami Garcia

#35. Once the interlude was over and I was released, I fled the room and, taking the stairs two at a time, found refuge in a dank corner of the basement filled with potatoes and mice. I stayed there until dinner, doing my best to stop crying by staring at the glowing face of my father's wristwatch.

Allen Kurzweil

#36. I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.

Cynthia Hand

#37. The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

#38. Buttercup," I say. Thousands of people are dead, but he has survived and even looks well fed. On what? He can get in and out of the house through a window we always left ajar in the pantry. He must have been eating field mice. I refuse to consider the alternative. I

Suzanne Collins

#39. 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

#40. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.

Gregory Maguire

#41. The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#42. Starting with mice, cats, and going up the evolutionary scale of animals.

Michio Kaku

#43. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.

Ruskin Bond

#44. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.

Robert Fulghum

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

Oliver Herford

#46. 33,3% of the mice used in this experiment were cured by the test drug; 33,3% of the population were unaffected by the drug and remained in a moribund condition; the third mouse got away.

Erwin Neter

#47. Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!

Leslie W.P. Garland

#48. Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are all unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

Bill Bailey

#49. Squirrels, otters, hedgehogs, mice,
Moles with fur like sable,
Gathered in good spirits all,
Round the festive table.
Sit we down to eat and drink.
Friends, before we do, let's think,
Fruit of forest, field and banks,
To the seasons we give thanks.

Brian Jacques

#50. Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

James Patterson

#51. I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them.

Lloyd Alexander

#52. He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one.

Elly Griffiths

#53. Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.

Jean Ferris

#54. Max?" said the Gasman. "Are those, um, rats?"
Lovely. "Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids," I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.

James Patterson

#55. He could hear rain pattering on the thatch, like a million mice line-dancing.

Tom Holt

#56. A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them.

Hugh Dalton

#57. A revival of 'Of Mice and Men' would have seemed out of place in years of Reaganomics, Donald Trump and Michael Milken, a time when Rambo supplied millions of filmgoers with a fantasy that masked what was really going on in their lives.

Jay Parini

#58. Quiet as mice, quiet as the wind, quiet as the grave.

Sarah J. Maas

#59. Such a small question, little mouse. Why. Yet, such a large answer. Suffice it to say that the gods are at war. And when the gods make war, it's we little mice who pay the price."

~Dal Durvaas, The Living Gods

W.M. Driscoll

#60. your days are like pages, the chapters unread. you have to keep turning your book has no end

John Steinbeck

#61. Dolorous Edd Tollett gave a sigh. When I was a lad, we only ate mice on special feast days. I was the youngest, so I always got the tail. There's no meat on the tail.

George R R Martin

#62. It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole
and yet
and yet
...

Lewis Carroll

#63. But that's life. We wander around like blind mice searching for whatever it is we're looking for. From mice to miserable men, from the poetry of childhood's hour to the darkness of death's goddamn dominion, we never stop searching. Why can't we just be?

Gregory Hughes

#64. A cut cannot heal, unless you leave it alone. I'll open mine daily, leaving bones exposed

John Steinbeck

#65. No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

Deng Xiaoping

#66. Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

John Steinbeck

#67. It will be awesome, if the people had the chance all stuff which surround them to see them as larger as possible so to be differences like you are a mice or something like this.... - I'm sure that people will see stuff which as normal size everything they won't see!

Deyth Banger

#68. Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can, And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran: Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea - And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three!

Lewis Carroll

#69. "But I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport." - Chris Hedges

Susan Abulhawa

#70. When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was cool: "Eulalia." And like an idiot, that's what I yelled off the Brooklyn Bridge: Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Ned Vizzini

#71. When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

Voltaire

#72. There was so much feeling in the world. So much sadness. So much longing. So much joy. Everything had a soul. The petals of flowers. The mice of the field. The clouds and rain and the bare limbs of trees. All

Justin Cronin

#73. I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with.

Sherilyn Fenn

#74. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

Robert Burns

#75. Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,

George R R Martin

#76. The mice will see you now," he said.

Douglas Adams

#77. Bianca and Mindy crept into the room like great big fashionable mice.

Caroline B. Cooney

#78. I'm in the habit of employing either sharks or mice.

Erin Jamison

#79. Behind every wall and every mirror and every vent, I hear sounds: breathing, rustling, footsteps, and murmurs. I try to tell myself it's just mice making their nests behind the barriers, but since when do rodents whisper?

A.G. Howard

#80. What you want to know is ... does it shorten your life? You can do
those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no
one's been really doing them.

Bruce Ames

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

Al Swearengen

#82. Cats?" Bruenor gawked at Regis. "Ye brought cats?" Regis smiled and shifted his head in his hands. "You know a better way to get rid of mice?

R.A. Salvatore

#83. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

Christine O'Donnell

#84. All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

Catherine The Great

#85. If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Walter Scott

#86. Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath with their thrilling sea-going adventures! A wonderful story, full of bold mice, good and wicked, who will show you what courage really means.

Lynne Reid Banks

#87. The old proverb was now made good, the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

Plutarch

#88. The heater doesn't work. The engine sounds sort of like a pig. And don't open the glove compartment because it disturbs the mice.

Juliet Rosetti

#89. Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

Terry Pratchett

#90. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Robert Burns

#91. You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men ... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.

Tobin Bell

#92. If the goddess - and that would be me, by the way - is displeased, you'll get bats in your hair and mice in your boots.

Cherise Sinclair

#93. Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

Leonard Ravenhill

#94. The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me.

Charles Dickens

#95. 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

#96. And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#97. A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

Will Cuppy

#98. Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

Seanan McGuire

#99. 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

#100. I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger!" Graypaw stopped his careful stalking to wander comically across the clearing "I will have to settle for hunting stupid mice I shall just wander up to them, and sit on them until they surrender!

Erin Hunter