mouse quotes

He isjoyful with swift movement when a mouse sticks in his sharp paw. I too am joyful when I understand a dearly loved difficult problem.

-Anonymous
c.820  'Me and Pangur Ba  n', by an unidentified cat-owning scholar, translated in Gerard Murphy Early Irish Lyrics (1956), no.1.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

-Walt(er Elias) Disney
c.1966  Comment to his wife during his last illness. Quoted in Leonard Mosley Disney's World (1985).

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt
  On the unobtrusiveness of the photographer. In NPR broadcast, 24  Aug.

It has been usual to catch a mouse or two (for form's sake) in public once a year.

-Thomas Gray
  On refusing the Laureateship. Letter to William Mason, 19 Dec.

Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus. The mountains are in labour, and there will be born an absurd little mouse.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Ars Poetica, l.139.

It is not the mouse who is the thief, it is the hole that allows the mouse in.

- Herman Jacobs
  His interpretation of  Talmudic principles applied in business. In Forbes, 21 Nov.

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

- Clement Moore
  The Night Before Christmas.

I should be the last person to say anything against temptation, naturally, but we have a proverb down here 'in baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse'.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
The Square Egg,'The Infernal Parliament' (published1924).

Thurber did not write the waya surgeon operates, he wrotethewayachildskipsrope,thewayamousewaltzes.

- E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
  In the NewYorker,11 Nov.Tribute toJamesThurber.