Robert Burns -The Book of Eli 2010 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2005 - William Shakespeare - Nursery Rhymes - Walt Disney - Plautus - Pliny the Elder - Proverb - Monty Python’s Flying Circus TV -
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie,
O what a panic’s in thy breastie! Robert Burns, To a Mouse
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley. ibid.
You hungry? The Book of Eli 2010 starring Denzel Washington & Gary Oldman & Mila Kunis & Ray Stevenson & Jennifer Beals & Evan Jones & Joe Pingue & Frances de la Tour & Michael Gambon & Tom Waits & Chris Browning et al, directors the Hughes brothers, Eli to mouse
The planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for and run by mice. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2005 starring Martin Freeman & Sam Rockwell & Mos Def & Zooey Deschanel & Bill Nighy & Warwick Davis & Anna Chanccellor & John Malkovich & Kelly Macdonald et al, director Garth Jennings; see also novel Douglas Adams, planet-building bloke
Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream V ii 17
Not a mouse stirring. William Shakespeare, Hamlet I i 10
Hickory, dickory, dock,
The mouse ran up the clock. Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book c.1744
Three blind mice, see how they run! Thomas Ravencroft, Deuteromelia, 1609
I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse. Walt Disney
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. Plautus, Truculentus
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia
When the cat’s away, the mice will play. Early 17th century proverb
My very great privilege to introduce Arthur Ewing and his musical mice. Monty Python’s Flying Circus s1e2, BBC 1969