Top 250 Mice Quotes & Sayings

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.

I wonder how they deal with mice at Disney World.

The cat with gloves catches no mice.

I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep.

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.

The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.

Resveratrol had a decent benefit when the mice were obese and sedentary. The mice that were fed a lean diet and resveratrol lived significantly longer than other treated mice as well as those that had no healthy diet and no resveratrol. So resveratrol is not an excuse to be lazy or eat whatever you want.

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

When mice run, cats give chase.

I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

When the cats away, the mice will play.

I'm terrified of mice or any type of rodent.

I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn't sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast.

The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

I admire personalities. Some politicians who are only great mice are just persons.

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.

We see that mice that undergo caloric restriction show a lower telomere shortening rate than those fed with a normal diet. These mice therefore have longer telomeres as adults, as well as lower rates of chromosome anomalies.

We believe that such a significant increase in longevity is due to the protective effect against cancer produced by caloric restriction - incidences fall by 40 percent if we compare them with the mice that produce more telomerase and have a normal diet - and, added to the presence of longer telomeres, this makes the mice live longer and better.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice from being killed. “Is this true, daughter?” Thomas Bowman had rumbled, his gaze filled with ire as he stared at Daisy. “It could be,” she had allowed. “But there is another explanation.” “And what is that?” Bowman had asked sourly. Her tone turned congratulatory. “I think we are hosting the most intelligent mice in New York!

Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved.

Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

My room is so small, the mice are hunchbacked.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.