Mice

Famous quotes containing the word mice:

“Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“It is as when a migrating army of mice girdles a forest of pines. The chopper fells trees from the same motive that the mouse gnaws them,—to get his living. You tell me that he has a more interesting family than the mouse. That is as it happens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Dragons beget dragons, and phoenixes, phoenixes; and the offspring of mice will know how to chew holes.”
—Chinese proverb.