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Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat. — Jim Butcher

It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care. — John Heywood

El-lie, Come out, come out, wherever you are! The cat's finally away. Time for the mouse to come out and play. — Kelly Oram

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it. — Hector Hugh Munro

If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor? — Seth Godin

Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me. — Maury Wills

It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

He meant you no harm?" said Omoro.
"He acted very friendly," said the old man, "but the cat always eats the mouse it plats with. — Alex Haley

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats. — Dante Alighieri

Foreshadowing is like playing cat and mouse. If done properly, it can be used to compel the reader to read on. — Mary Sage Nguyen

She had never told us on, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend. — Harper Lee

If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse? — Haim Harari

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge. — Arthur Golden

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse. — Robert K. Massie

Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television. — Mae West

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

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

But a mouse can be brave. Small as they are, though, they learn it is wiser not to challenge the cat. — Tad Williams

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. — Charlotte Gray

It's the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. — Tim Berners-Lee

Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too. — George Saunders

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Good Lord," he muttered "They pick a mouse to tame a cat. — Hannah Kent

She sounded about as displeased as a cat who'd just cornered a mouse. — Marissa Meyer

the mouse, who was never so brave, jumped into the mouth of the cat, who was never so hungry. — Jose Prendes

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food? — Steven Wright

The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse. — Steven Millhauser

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear. — Earl Derr Biggers

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse. — Henry David Thoreau

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby. — Nigerian Proverb

Dear Fly,

I love you. If you are a mouse I am cheese. If you are a cat I am a mouse. You are a fly, so I want to be shit. — Casey Scieszka

Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither — Mike Murdock

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. — Jonathan Swift

He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten. — Emily Bronte

Whose mouse are you?"
Nobody's mouse.
"Where is your mother?"
Inside a cat.
"Where is your father?"
Caught in a trap. — Robert Kraus

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser. — Tycho Brahe

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? — Holly Black

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong. — Al Leiter

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving. — Joseph Barbera

She was addicted to the pain. Addicted to the drama. Addicted to the cat and mouse game. — Jessica N. Watkins

He's our rodent control officer. He doesn't catch mice, he just terrifies them. — Lilian Jackson Braun

The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they.
(from, Coriolanus) — William Shakespeare

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat. — C.S. Lewis

This cat-and-mouse could not last forever, and he also knew that when you are the mouse you don't have much to say about it to the cat. — Robert Olmstead