Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
“The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.”
"Father and Son: 1939", line 73.
The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires
“And all I get is cheese, like I'm taking Pictures”
No Lie Featuring Drake.
2010s, 2012, Based on a T.R.U. Story (2012)
“I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.”
Quoted in "Saint Paul," interview with John Aldridge, The Guardian (2005-04-10)
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.”
Live at the Purple Onion (2007)
“Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.”
On eating habits, Rollerderby fanzine (October 1993)
1991–1995
“The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.”
"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.
