Animals Quote by Erik Pevernagie

The dream of a cat is filled with mice

— Arab Proverb

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

— James Arthur Ray

“When a cat sees a mouse, it will always chase, unless, perhaps, the cat is pursued by something larger, like a dog. We are…

— Stephanie Garber

“The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way.”

— Agatha Christie

“Do people ever wonder about why it has been said that the mice shall play when the cat is away?”

— Amarjyoti Acharya

“Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it’s hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking…

— Elly Griffiths

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I…

— Franz Kafka

...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ALAS,” said the mouse, “the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept…

— Franz Kafka

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

— Kaspar Hauser

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

— Ethan Gilsdorf

“There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky