Mouse Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Mouse


I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek. That hath but oon hole for to sterte to. Chaucer—Paraphrase of the Prologue of The Wyves Tale of Bath. L. 572.	1
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. Herbert—Jacula Prudentum. Plautus—Trunculentus. IV.	2
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat’s eare. Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. II. Ch. V.	3
“Once on a time there was a mouse,” quoth she, “Who sick of worldly tears and laughter, grew Enamoured of a sainted privacy; To all terrestrial things he bade adieu, And entered, far from mouse, or cat, or man, A thick-walled cheese, the best of Parmesan.” Lorenzo Pignotti—The Mouse Turned Hermit.	4
When a building is about to fall down all the mice desert it. Pliny the Elder—Natural History. Bk. VIII. Sec. CIII.	5
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole, Can never be a mouse of any soul. Pope—The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. L. 298.	6
The mouse ne’er shunn’d the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 6. L. 44.	7