Mice

Famous quotes containing the word mice:

“A cat that catches mice does not meow.”
—Chinese proverb.

“For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“And the sun and the stove and the mice and the gnawed paper
Made up the days and nights when I missed supper,
Paring my nails, looking over the farbelow street
Of tramways and bells. But one night I heard the feet.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)