Town Mouse Country

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

    We’ll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
    Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)

    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.

    A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)