A Quote by Tom Wilson

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

Tom Wilson

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Tom Wilson
American - Cartoonist
August 1, 1931 - September 16, 2011

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

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

Bertolt Brecht

I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

Jerry Nachman

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Margaret Halsey

Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad.

Rick Riordan

The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead.

Suzanne Collins

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

Nancy Farmer

The rat race is real. I was part of the rat race.

Nuseir Yassin

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Richard Koch

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.

Paul Palmer

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

Linda Ellerbee

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

Mike Tyson

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

If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death - like man. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves!