Mice Quotes
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Men multiply like Mice in a barn if they have unlimited Means of Subsistence.
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More Mice Quotes
Where robot mice and robot men, I said, run round in robot towns.
— 1977 Where Robot Mice and Robot Men Run Round In Robot Towns, prologue.
It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping— 1962 Speech at CommunistYouth League conference, Jul.
I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie mice, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.
sitting bull— Recorded by James M. Walsh, inspector in the Northwest Territory of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, at a conference with Sitting Bull on March 23, 1879. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 206.
The best laid schemes o' mice and menGang aft a-gley;And leave us naught but grief and painFor promised joy.
Robert Burns— To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785)
We should infer in the case of a beautiful dwelling-place that it was built for its owners and not for mice; we ought, therefore, in the same way to regard the universe as the dwelling-place of the gods.
chrysippus— As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, iii. 10.
It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping— Quoted in Hung Li China's Political Situation and the Power Struggle in Peking (1977), p. 107
— According to Chambers dictionary of quotations (1993), p. 315, this quote is from a speech at the Communist Youth League conference in July 1962.
He loops in crazy figures half the nightAmong the trees that face the corner light.But when he brushes up against a screen,We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:For something is amiss or out of placeWhen mice with wings can wear a human face.
theodore roethke— "The Bat," ll. 5-10
Her feet beneath her petticoatLike little mice stole in and out,As if they feared the light;But oh, she dances such a way!No sun upon an Easter-dayIs half so fine a sight.
john suckling— Ballad upon a Wedding. Compare: "Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again", Robert Herrick, To Mistress Susanna Southwell.
When the cat is away, the mice will play.
— "In the absence of the person in authority those under his control will often neglect the duties/rules imposed on them." (Paczolay, 1997 p. 114)
“I always play with everybody,” said Honoré. “It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.”
orson scott card— Chapter 6 (Heartfire (1998))
...crazy as two waltzing mice.
Raymond Chandler— chapter 25 (Farewell, My Lovely (1940))
There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: ‘it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.’
ha-joon chang— Ch. 5, Black cat, white cat, p. 108.
I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.
robert jordan— Juilin Sandar
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— Alan Watts Blues
They are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are crossbreeding humans and animals and are coming up with, with mice with fully functioning human brains.
Christine O'Donnell— The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News), 15 November 2007
Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.
pliny the elder— Book VIII, sec. 126.
"There's no courage", The Prophet said, "before the war has begun." Drunkards vaunt their bravery when you speak of war. But in the blaze of battle they scatter like mice. I'm astonished by the man who wants purity And yet trembles when the harshness of polishing begin... When a man beats a carpet again and again It's not the carpet he's attacking, but the dirt in it.
jalal al-din muhammad rumi— Mathnawi (Teachings of Rumi (1999))
Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But oh! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
— Sir John Suckling, Ballad Upon a Wedding, Stanza 8.
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— Robert Burns, To a Mouse (1785), Stanza 7. See also Anna Letitia Barbauld, Rose's Petition; John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther; Alexander Pope, Imitation of Horace, Book II, Satire 6.
But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.
michael bruce— Michael Bruce, Musiad. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
But, mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men , :;:; :;:; Gang aft a-gly, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain, :;:; :;:; For promis'd joy.
— Robert Burns,To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785).
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
pliny the elder— Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book VIII, Section 103.
"The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley; and leave us naught but grief and pain for promised joy"
— Robert Burns, from "To a Mouse" ("Gang aft a-gley" is translated: "Often go awry")
Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.
— Book VIII, sec. 126.
It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
— Quoted in Hung Li China's Political Situation and the Power Struggle in Peking (1977), p. 107
— According to Chambers dictionary of quotations (1993), p. 315, this quote is from a speech at the Communist Youth League conference in July 1962.
We should infer in the case of a beautiful dwelling-place that it was built for its owners and not for mice; we ought, therefore, in the same way to regard the universe as the dwelling-place of the gods.
— As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, iii. 10.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae [wasps] with the express intention of their [larva] feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.
— Charles Darwin, letter to Asa Gray (22 May 1860).
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' Men 170 Gang aft a-gley.
Robert Burns— 1785 'To A Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest with the Plough, November,1785', stanza 7.
