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| A mouse in time may shear a cable asunder. | 1 |
| A mouse must not think to cast a shadow like an elephant. | 2 |
| A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a castle wall. | 3 |
| By diligence and patience the mouse ate into the cable. Franklin. | 4 |
| If you are a mouse don’t follow frogs. Italian. | 5 |
| It’s a bold mouse that makes her nest in the cat’s ear. Danish. | 6 |
| It is a mean mouse that has but ae hole. | 7 |
| It is a poor mouse that sits on the meal sack and does not gnaw. German. | 8 |
| It were better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep. | 9 |
| Mice care not to play with kittens. | 10 |
| No larder but hath its mice. | 11 |
| She is a sairy mouse that has but ae hole. | 12 |
| That mouse will have a tail; i.e., the thing will have a long train of consequences. Dutch. | 13 |
| The mountain is in labor and brings forth a mouse. Italian, Latin. | 14 |
| The mouse does not leave the cat’s house with a belly full. Italian, Spanish. | 15 |
| The mouse is knowing but the cat more knowing. Danish. | 16 |
| The mouse may find a hole in a room ever so full of cats. Danish. | 17 |
| The mouse that has but one hole is soon caught. French, Spanish, Dutch. | 18 |
The mouse that trusts to one poor hole,
Can never be a mouse of any soul. Pope. | 19 |
| ’Tis not the mouse but the hole that does the injury. German. | 20 |
| Weel kens the mouse when the cat’s out o’ the house. | 21 |
| When a mouse has fallen into the meal sack he thinks he’s the miller himself. Dutch. | 22 |
| Who shall hang the bell about the cat’s neck? (The mice having in council decided that this was necessary to their safety were confronted with this question.) | 23 |
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