Town Mouse Country

Famous quotes containing the words town, mouse and/or country:

    You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    An epicure dining at Cree
    Found a rather large mouse in his stew.
    Said the waiter, “Don’t shout,
    Or wave it about,
    Or the rest will be wanting one too.”
    Anonymous.

    To think to know the country and not know
    The hillside on the day the sun lets go
    Ten million silver lizards out of snow!
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)