“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.
“The second mouse gets the cheese!”
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“The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.”
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"Father and Son: 1939", line 73.
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“I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.”
Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director
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A Foreword to Krazy (1946)
Context: A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.
“When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E Cheese.”
Zach Galifianakis (1969) American actor and comedian
Live at the Purple Onion (2007)
“Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.”
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
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1991–1995
“The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), lines 298-299. Compare: "I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to", Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Wif of Bathes Prologue", line 6154; "The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Dark Reunion