rat quotes

A greyhound should be heeded lyke a snake, And neckyd lyke a drake, Backed lyke a bream, Footed lyke a catte, Taylled lyke a ratte.

- DameJuliana or Juliana Barnes   fl.14c Berners
  Treatyse perteynynge to Hawkynge, Huntynge, Fyshynge, and Coote Armiris.

Matilda Briggs†was a ship which is associated with the giant ratof Sumatra, a story for whichtheworld isnot yet prepared.

- SirArthur Conan Doyle
  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes,'The Sussex Vampire'.

It used to be the rat race. Now it's the sack race.

- Gerard Houllier
  On being a football manager. In The Guardian,1 Mar.

Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew Your cosmopolitan sympathies.

- Isaac Rosenberg
  'And God KnowsWhat Antipathies'.

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(tockton) Thompson
  'Those DaringYoung Men InTheir Flying Machines†Ain't WhatThey UsedTo Be!', in Pageant, Sep.