Rats Quotes
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.
The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners
Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by generating commissions and other costs.
It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats
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.
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.
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.
There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.
If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.
Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.
I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.
The water bath has a platform which the rats learn to find because they don't like to get wet. Then you remove the platform. But you don't tell the rats.
I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.
But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.
People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.
I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.
How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?
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.