A Quote by Plautus

A mouse does not rely on just one hole. — © Plautus
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]
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.
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.
Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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.
You didn't plan to write a story; it just happened. Well, it could be argued that the next thing you should do is find a hole to dig. Right? So you start digging a hole and then somebody brings a body along and puts it in. That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not that you say, "I want to write a story about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and "I don't know what I'm doing here in this story,' and - boop! a shovel. "Oh, interesting. Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."
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?
Not many people like it when they get criticism. Of course, if you have someone who does tell you and you do have a rapport, that's great. But don't rely on it. You have to rely on yourself.
I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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