Lily Tomlin Quotes:
Ocupation: Actress
Life: b. September 1, 1939
Birthday: September 1
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
source: Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.
topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Truism, Light Of My Life, Day To Day Life, Winning The Day, Winning The Race, Motivational Business, Rat Race, Smart And Funny, Life Is A Journey, Work And Life, Funny Business
