Two cats and one mouse,
Two wives in one house,
Two dogs at one bone,
Can never agree in one. [ Proverb ]
Silence catches a mouse. [ Proverb ]
The cat sees not every mouse. [ Proverb ]
Today a man, tomorrow a mouse. [ Proverb ]
The cat sees not the mouse ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To speak like a mouse in a cheese. [ Proverb ]
Pour not water on a drowning mouse. [ Proverb ]
Can a mouse fall in love with a cat? [ Proverb ]
The cat invites the mouse to a feast. [ Proverb ]
Let not the mouse-trap smell of blood. [ Proverb ]
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser. [ T. Brake ]
The mountains have brought forth a mouse. [ Proverb ]
The usurer and younkier are cat and mouse. [ Proverb ]
A lion may come to be beholding to a mouse. [ Proverb ]
A mouse, in time, may shear a cable asunder. [ Proverb ]
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. [ Swift ]
A mouse that has only one hole is soon taken. [ French Proverb ]
Better a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all. [ Proverb ]
What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse. [ Opitz ]
No house without mouse; no throne without thorn. [ Proverb ]
It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The mouse that hath but one hole, is easily caught. [ Proverb ]
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The mouse knows well when the cat's out of the house. [ Proverb ]
It must be a wily mouse that can breed in a cat's ear. [ Proverb ]
A mouse-trap; easy to enter, but not easy to get out of. [ Mrs. Balfour ]
A mouse must not think to cast a shadow like an elephant. [ Proverb ]
I never whisper'd a private affair
Within the hearing of cat or mouse,
No, not to myself in the closet alone,
But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house;
Everything came to be known. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Though your enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. [ Proverb ]
He who kills a lion when absent, fears a mouse when present. [ Proverb ]
If the frog and mouse quarrel, the kite will see them a greed. [ Proverb ]
For a dead one I am not at home; I am like the cat with the mouse. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Mephistopheles ]
When the frog and mouse would take up the quarrel, the kite decided it. [ Proverb ]
You converse daily with the devil, and pretend to be frighted with a mouse. [ Proverb ]
A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]