Modest Mouse Played

Famous quotes containing the words modest, mouse and/or played:

    Fair is my Love, and cruel as she’s fair
    Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny;
    Her smiles are lightning, though her pride despair;
    And her disdains are gall, her favours honey.
    A modest maid, decked with a blush of honour,
    Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love,
    Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

    A mouse does not run into the mouth of a sleeping cat.
    —Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)

    Listen here. I’ve never played it safe
    in spite of what the critics say.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)