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  • The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

  • One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

    Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965
  • Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

    Rats   Today   Dolls  
  • Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

    Sleep   Pigs   Devil  
    Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell
  • Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

    Roger Zelazny (2000). “The Hand of Oberon”, G K Hall & Company
  • I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.

    Cutting   Thinking   Dumb  
  • Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.

    Dog   Mean   Men  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
  • I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me.

    Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
  • That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury.

    Years   Trying   Poison  
    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality

    Real   Class   Rats  
    Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
  • In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

    Military   Men   Research  
    Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”
  • Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

    Dog   Hypocrite   Eagles  
  • Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

    Dog   Horse   Motivation  
    Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 483), 1996.
  • The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

    Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
  • Foxes may be furrier and sexier than rats, but they are still vermin, and need to be controlled and killed. When I consider all the different methods of killing foxes, my view, backed up by Lord Burns, is that hunting with hounds is the most natural way to kill them . We have to be honest about the fact that what really upsets some of my hon. Friends - and, perhaps, some Opposition Members too - is the idea that only toffs go hunting. If only hunters did not wear red coats, things might be different.

    Hunting   Views   Ideas  
  • Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

    Rats   Traps   Fingers  
    Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
  • It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

    Elephants   Rats  
  • He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

    Rats   Villain   Humans  
    Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.42, Macmillan
  • Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

    Hero   Race   Champion  
    1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.
  • In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.

    Men   Thinking   Race  
    Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 179), 1956.
  • Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

  • All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance, glorified memories, absolute certainties that later turn out to be wrong. Humans are emotional pack rats. These bags define us.

    Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.33, Harper Collins
  • You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

    Jobs   Mazes   Rats  
  • We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

    Edward Hoagland (1973). “Walking the Dead Diamond River”, Random House (NY)
  • Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

    Rats   Has Beens  
  • My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

    Dad   Squirrels   Brain  
  • Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.

    People   Grace   Ignorant  
  • You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

    Littles   Rats   Cheese  
    "Long Joan Silver". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, July 10, 2013.
  • Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

    Men   Rats   Driving  
    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.66, Da Capo Press
  • The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

    Government   Rats   Lasts  
    Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.115, David M Gross
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