“A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.”

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

I am myself my own commander.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

My wife can’t cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.

Announcers don’t do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.