54 Mousetrap Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous mousetrap quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational mousetrap quotes. Hopefully, these mousetrap quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your mousetrap knowledge!

Famous Mousetrap Quotes

A mousetrap always provides free cheese. — Unknown

I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap. — Rodney Dangerfield

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. — Plautus

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. — Raymond Chandler

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. — W. C. Fields

Scooby snack. Jurassic. Plastic. Gas. Booby Trap — Ghostface Killah

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat. — Viktor Korchnoi

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright

It's not the fault of the mouse, but of the one who offers him the cheese. — Mexican Proverbs

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. — Elliott Chaze

Short Mousetrap Quotes

• Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap. — Albert Einstein
• Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. — Ronald Reagan
• If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. — George Gobel
• Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. — Unknown
• In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. — Hector Hugh Munro
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice? — Julian Tuwim
• Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. — James Carswell
• The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole. — Edgar Shoaff
• If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

People Writing About Mousetrap

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Unknown quotes on life, gratitude and happiness	1801	14881
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on love and marriage, nature and self reliance	4234	36527
Rodney Dangerfield	365	4569
Plautus quotes on war, play	265	1583
Raymond Chandler quotes on writing, los angeles	219	1871
W. C. Fields quotes on death, philadelphia	229	2882

More Mousetrap Quotes

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role. — Helio Gracie

I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps. — Matthew Gray Gubler

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it. — A. G. Gaston

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist. — Alan Greenspan

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before. — Kin Hubbard

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. — Barbara Ehrenreich

If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn't a mousetrap any more. — Michael Behe

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse. — Lawrence Block

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap. — Kurt Vonnegut

If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people. — Lee Clow

Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question. — Julius Lester

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice. — Charles Darwin

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the world to beat a path to our dear. You've got to build a market for your book. — Larry Winget

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap. — Jeanette Winterson

Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing. — Thomas Howes

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers. — Eugene Schwartz

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners. — Daymond John

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. — Tom Waits

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

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house. — C. S. Lewis

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