Rat Quotes

319 quotes by 267 authors

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the… — Daniel Berrigan
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. — Elizabeth Bowen
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes… — Julie Burchill
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. — Edmund Burke
I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula… — Alan Alda
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house. — Dick Cavett
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a… — Kevin J. Anderson
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap. — Ida B. Wells
Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as… — Isaac Asimov
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the… — Cyril Connolly
The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole!… — Kenneth Grahame
Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look… — Eddie Murphy
You're a mouse studying to be a rat. — Wilson Mizner
Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees.… — Raymond Chandler
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott
Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT! — Robin Williams
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. — John Spencer
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. — Winston Churchill
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott

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