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• 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.

  Dick Van Patten

  Snakes, People, And Love

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• You're a mouse studying to be a rat.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sarcastic, Study, Mice

  Quoted in Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners (1953)

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• I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

  A. E. Housman

  Poetry, Terriers

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?

  Heather Mills

  Funny, Dog, Drinking

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• It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

  Winston Churchill

  Betrayal, Betray

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• I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

  Sean Penn

  America, Gone, Drivers

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• One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Justice

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

  Vance Packard

  Horse, Fun, Cat

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• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fashion, Cat, Tree

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Sheep, Wish

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Party, Men, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.92, 谷月社

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• Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love

  Hans Zinsser

  War, Adventure, Science

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• In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

  Anne Lamott

  Drinking, Waiting, Forgiving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.120, Anchor

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• The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

  John Spencer

  Real, Cutting, Technology

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• Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

  Winston Churchill

  Revenge, Certain, Ingenuity

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.88, A&C Black

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• 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

  Jobs, Feet, Shelter

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• Squirrels are just rats with good publicity

  Garrison Wynn

  Squirrels, Publicity

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• ... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks as if it had been made out of a sow's ear for the spathe, and the tail of a rat that died of Elephantiasis for the spadix. The whole thing is mingling of unwholesome greens, livid purples, and pallid pinks, the livery of putrescence in fact, and it possesses and odour to match the colouring.

  Edward Augustus Bowles

  Mother, Nature, Flower

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• The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

  Ray Liotta

  Dad, Blow, Pieces

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• Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Men, Race, Understanding

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• Outside openings to attics, crawl spaces and similar locations should be sealed off so rats and squirrels cant get into houses, garages or other structures. Pet owners should make an extra effort to keep their domestic animals free of fleas and avoid leaving out pet food where it can attract wild animals.

  Frank Hall

  Animal, Space, Squirrels

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• On 'Lab Rats,' I read the script probably three or four times before we ever even do a table read because I want to be completely prepared. And I want to know exactly which beats I have to hit and where I need to make something comical. Some lines need a little more than others do just to get the point across, to get the joke to be funny.

  Billy Unger

  Three, Needs, Four

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality Is Up To You, Graduates" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2011.

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

  Rainbow Rowell

  Villain, Humans, Versions

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.42, Macmillan

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• I'd love to see that rat nose smashed!

  James Dashner

  Noses

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure”, p.21, Chicken House

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