Quotes and Sayings About Rats
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
-- A. E. Housman -
Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.
-- Amy Grant -
If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.
-- Anne Stuart -
You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.
-- Arthur M. Jolly -
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.
-- Arthur Mutambara -
I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.
-- B. F. Skinner -
Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.
-- Barbara Holland -
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
-- Bette Davis -
I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.
-- Bipasha Basu -
I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.
-- Charles Dickens -
Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
-- Claude A. Swanson -
I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
-- Courtney Love -
Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.
-- Dewitt Jones -
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
-- Dick Cavett -
It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
LeopÂards break inÂto the temÂple and drink all the sacÂriÂfiÂcial vesÂsels dry; it keeps hapÂpenÂing; in the end, it can be calÂcuÂlatÂed in adÂvance and is inÂcorÂpoÂratÂed inÂto the ritÂual.
-- Franz Kafka -
Squirrels are just rats with good publicity
-- Garrison Wynn -
My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton -
Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.
-- Gerry Spence -
I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
-- Harry Anderson -
I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
-- J. Cole -
The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.
-- Jaak Panksepp -
Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.
-- James Darren -
It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.
-- James Vila Blake
