"MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mice
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Mice
20 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Mice β
Related Quotes
"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."
"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 β¦"
"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walkβ¦"
"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 mousβ¦"
"We cannot model everything in the mouse. If we want to move stem cell therapies from the lab to clinics and from the β¦"
"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."