Rats Quotes
416 quotes by 335 authors
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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
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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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
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
— Dick Cavett
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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
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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
— Ida B. Wells
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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
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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
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Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They…
— George S. Patton
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when…
— Joseph Hall
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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
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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
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There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?
— Heather Mills
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You're a mouse studying to be a rat.
— Wilson Mizner
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Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is…
— Vance Packard
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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
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I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Rats Quotes
335 authors contributed a total of 416 Rats Quotes, led by these top contributors: