Mice

“A cube of cheese no larger than a dieMay bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.”

“But, mousie, thou art no thy lane,       For promis'd joy.”

“You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.”

“A harvest mouse goes scampering by,With silver claws and silver eye”

“Rats and mice are not generally regarded as pets, but as pests; they have few defenders. Yet the pain a rat or a mouse feels is every bit as real as that of any pet. In laboratories, they suffer, as anybody who has heard them moan, cry, whimper and even scream knows. The experimenters dissimulate about this by insisting that they are merely vocalising.”

“We cannot model everything in the mouse. If we want to move stem cell therapies from the lab to clinics and from the mouse to humans, we need to understand what these primate cells can and can't do. We need to study them in humans, including human embryos.”

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

“When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.”

“I think if she lived inSurely a mouse!”

“The city mouse lives in a house,The garden mouse lives in a bower”

“Mice are the key model we use to study mammalian development and we extrapolate from mice to humans. This work tells us that the extrapolation can be unreliable. I’m not saying that all work in mice doesn’t apply in humans, but there are fundamental differences we need to be wary of.”

“I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek.That hath but oon hole for to sterte to.”

“The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.”

“It had need to beeA wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's eare.”

“The mouse that always trusts to one poor holeCan never be a mouse of any soul.”

“The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as thev did budgeFrom rascals worse than they.”