Men multiply like Mice in a barn if they have unlimited Means of Subsistence.
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Where robot mice and robot men, I said, run round in robot towns.
It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
Deng XiaopingIt doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
Deng XiaopingHer 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 sucklingWhen the cat is away, the mice will play.
“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...crazy as two waltzing mice.
Raymond ChandlerThere 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 changThey 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"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 rumiHer 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.
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
Robert BurnsBut 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 bruceWhen a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
pliny the elder"The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley; and leave us naught but grief and pain for promised joy"
It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
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.
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' Men 170 Gang aft a-gley.
Robert BurnsI 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.
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