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Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.
When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.
He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.
I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.
I don't like it when people leave their takeaways on the street: it makes me sad and it draws foxes and rats.
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats
How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?
If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.
Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.
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.
Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.
Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.
Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.
Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.
Today coming to work, I saw one of those only in New York scenes. It was a rat who had passed out after choking on a pretzel.
Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.
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.
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.
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.
Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.
Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.
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.
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.
Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.
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.
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.
As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.
I'm not 'worked up' so much as 'fed up' with the rat faced whores in the Conservative Party who neglect to invite me to announcements in my riding.
During the pilot, director Len Wiseman and I discussed how Lucifer views humanity, and we can came up with this notion that he sees them as lab rats.
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.
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.
We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.
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.
If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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.
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.
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.