Modest Mouse Played

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

    Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
    Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)

    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)

    If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)