Berating Quote by David Parnas

If the mouse won't come to the trap, put the trap near the mouse...

— Melchor Lim

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them…

— Eugene Schwartz

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

— Mortimer Zuckerman

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

— George Gobel

If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door.

— Glenn Kelman

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and…

— Robert Ludlum

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy

— Anonymous

Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.

— Rick Riordan

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

— Anonymous

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

— Anonymous

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

— Charles Spurgeon

Keep no more cats than will catch mice

— Proverb