A Quote by George Herbert
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion.
Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
[I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.
A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse.
And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.
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