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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. -- Wendell Berry
Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents. -- Jean Ferris
Rats live on no evil star -- Anne Sexton
Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease. -- Chris Hardwick
A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras. -- Will Cuppy
Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right. -- Kate DiCamillo
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
That stupid Charlie Brown! He had the nerve to say I'm not perfect!" "So I suppose you hit him, huh?" "Rats! I knew I forgot something! -- Charles M. Schulz
Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear. -- George R. R. Martin
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly. -- Rebecca Solnit
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 our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that. -- Carlos Castaneda
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE. -- Terry Pratchett
I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing. -- Bob Geldof
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. -- Jimmy Reid
You dirty, double-crossing rat. -- James Cagney
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. -- Elizabeth Bowen
While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity. -- Simon R. Green
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. -- W. C. Fields
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do. -- Jo Nesbo
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species. -- Voltaire
Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead, -- Laurell K. Hamilton
For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum -- Thomas Jefferson
If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat. -- John Green
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud. -- Boyle Roche
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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. -- Terry Pratchett
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! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks." -- Kenneth Grahame
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. 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. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. -- Robert Browning
We were driven off like rats in five minutes. -- Roger Sherman
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats. -- Morrie Schwartz
I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats. -- Jerry Nachman
Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough. -- Joe Cowley
I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while. -- Tom Wilson
I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute. -- Pink
I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me. -- Jamie Bell
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. -- Francis Jeffrey
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
It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing. -- Robbie Fowler
I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
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 full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory. -- Kevin J. Anderson
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change. -- Val Kilmer
I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents. -- Mos Def
I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over. -- Bernie Mac
I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out. -- Isabella Rossellini
I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation. -- Mark Helprin
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. -- Paul Bloom
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration. -- Joanna Lumley
I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.' -- Jason Behr
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it. -- David Attenborough
There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy. -- David Suzuki
Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else. -- Joe Cowley
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[Pigeons are] rats with wings. -- Ken Livingstone
Squirrels are just rats with good publicity -- Garrison Wynn
The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats. -- Ray Davies
It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats. -- Stephen Hawking
The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic. -- Geraldo Rivera
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. -- Claude A. Swanson
The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot. -- T. S. Eliot
In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it. -- Lisa Kudrow
There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli. -- Ernst Mayr
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience. -- B. F. Skinner
I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister -- Robert Bloch
We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats -- Herbert Hoover
Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write. -- Suzanne Collins
Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows. -- Charles Dickens
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You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars. -- Arthur M. Jolly
Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors. -- Ihara Saikaku
If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model. -- Banksy
Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats. -- Paul Bloom
I think we are in rats' alley Where the dead men lost their bones. -- T. S. Eliot
August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock. -- Ichiro Suzuki
I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them. -- B. F. Skinner
Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245- -- Cassandra Clare
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. -- Gunter Grass
The rat gave birth. Six little ones...cute baby rats... None of them are like Hitler. -- Yoshihiro Tatsumi
WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH. -- Charles Bukowski
Do not put this product in a big vat and drop rats into it from a cat-walk. -- Dave Barry
Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male. -- Alfred Kinsey
How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country? -- Thanhha Lai
There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk? -- Heather Mills
I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat! -- Jeremy Irvine
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. -- Roger Ebert
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. -- Sean O Faolain
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y. -- Susan Beth Pfeffer
Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad. -- Rick Riordan
Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse. -- Cinda Williams Chima
My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers -- Nas
Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see. -- J. K. Rowling
Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too. -- Terry Pratchett
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. -- Nadine Gordimer
Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her itâ??s better than rats. -- Anne Stuart
Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. -- Kate DiCamillo
When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar. -- P.B. Kerr
Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats -- Tupac Shakur
As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores. -- Steven Pinker
Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned. -- Walter Abendroth
At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest. -- Dan Simmons
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. -- Dana Gould
Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees. -- Ruby Dee
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. -- Richard Rosen
Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George) -- Rick Riordan
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. -- Kate DiCamillo
It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. -- Jean Harris
This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth. -- P. G. Wodehouse
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 -- Celia Green
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption. -- Clay Shirky
New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes. -- David Letterman
I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something. -- Nikki Reed
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. -- Jhonen Vasquez
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. -- Banksy
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. -- Rich Hall

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