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Quotes About Mice

Shades slithered, doors boomed, keys rattled their bones in locks, people fled with hordes of torn newspaper mice nibbling their heels.
~ Ray Bradbury
A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
~ Will Cuppy
They were a pair of white mice, I thought—only Kitsey was a spun-sugar, fairy-princess mouse whereas Andy was more the kind of luckless, anemic, pet-shop mouse you might feed to your boa constrictor.
~ Donna Tartt
These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.
~ Douglas Adams
The mice will see you now, he said.
~ Douglas Adams
These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front." The old man paused, and with a sympathetic frown continued. "They've been experimenting on you, I'm afraid.
~ Douglas Adams
Yes. Five minutes later and it wouldn't have mattered so much. It was a quite shocking cock-up." "Huh?" said Arthur. "The mice were furious." "The mice were furious?" "Oh yes," said the old man mildly. "Yes, well, so I expect were the dogs and cats and duck-billed platypuses, but . . ." "Ah, but they hadn't paid for it, you see, had they?
~ Douglas Adams
These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings.
~ Douglas Adams
Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one.
~ Douglas Adams
The mice will see you now," he said.
~ Douglas Adams
When a woman enters my house, a tunnel of books welcomes her, a carnival of heroes bounces from every corner, and I lead her straight through the welcoming applause of writers and mice.
~ Rawi Hage
Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous.
~ Margaret Atwood
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.
~ Vance Packard
The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
~ Gary Wolf
My room is so small, the mice are hunchbacked.
~ Henny Youngman
Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Dirty. Dead mice and all. And they call it a restaurant. Bah." "You are still young," Grijpstra said. "The world is held together by dirt. Don't think of it or you'll never eat again.
~ Janwillem van de Wetering
From here he could see the farmer's daughter in the yard, feeding the geese. Wasn't there a nursery rhyme in there somewhere? No, he was thinking of the farmer's wife, wasn't he?--cutting off tails with a carving knife. A horrid image. Poor mice, he had thought when he was a boy. Still thought the same now that he was a man. Nursery rhymes were brutal affairs.
~ Kate Atkinson
Farewell" is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are "Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place." There is a great deal of comfort in those words.
~ Kate DiCamillo
She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Requiring cats to hunt like dogs will benefit only the mice.
~ William S. Lind
Once the interlude was over and I was released, I fled the room and, taking the stairs two at a time, found refuge in a dank corner of the basement filled with potatoes and mice. I stayed there until dinner, doing my best to stop crying by staring at the glowing face of my father's wristwatch.
~ Allen Kurzweil
I admire personalities. Some politicians who are only great mice are just persons.
~ Milos Zeman
Mice are very difficult to do front on, but they have nicely human little hands and feet, and whiskers and tails are great for expressing emotion.
~ Helen Craig