Top 30 Mousetrap Quotes & Sayings

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.

Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door.

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

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

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people.

If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn't a mousetrap any more.

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the world to beat a path to our dear. You've got to build a market for your book.

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.