Mice

"MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women."

"A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie."

"But, mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gly, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promis'd joy."

"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes."

"A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye"

"Rats and mice are not generally regarded as pets, but as pests; they have few defenders. Yet the pain a rat or a mouse feels is every bit as real as that of any pet. In laboratories, they suffer, as anybody who has heard them moan, cry, whimper and even scream knows. The experimenters dissimulate about this by insisting that they are merely vocalising."

"We cannot model everything in the mouse. If we want to move stem cell therapies from the lab to clinics and from the mouse to humans, we need to understand what these primate cells can and can't do. We need to study them in humans, including human embryos."

"Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only."

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

"I think if she lived in A little shoe-house — That little old woman was Surely a mouse!"

"The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower"

"Mice are the key model we use to study mammalian development and we extrapolate from mice to humans. This work tells us that the extrapolation can be unreliable. I’m not saying that all work in mice doesn’t apply in humans, but there are fundamental differences we need to be wary of."

"I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek. That hath but oon hole for to sterte to."

"The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken."

"It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's eare."

"Once on a time there was a mouse," quoth she, "Who sick of worldly tears and laughter, grew Enamoured of a sainted privacy; To all terrestrial things he bade adieu, And entered, far from mouse, or cat, or man, A thick-walled cheese, the best of Parmesan."

"The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul."

"The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as thev did budge From rascals worse than they."

"If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

"The early bird may catch the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."