A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
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Gelett Burgess, The Maxims of Methuselah (1907)Gelett Burgess
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A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.
E. E. Cummings
Girls bored me — they still do. I love w:Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Walt Disney
There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Some voices never manage to break properly. But in all good men there lurks a true note, I won't say like a mouse in a trap, but rather like a mouse between wall and wainscoting.
Halldor Laxness
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.Alexander Pope
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