“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
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“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress
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“If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
“Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.”
Ed Brubaker (1966) comic book writer and cartoonist
“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Remark in 1923 after rejoining the Conservatives, having left them earlier to join the Liberals; reported in Kay Halle, Irrepressible Churchill (1966), p. 52–53. Other sources say this remark was made in 1924.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Ilana Mercer South African writer
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“Rats in paradise! Rats in paradise!”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven
Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat
A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (1985)
The Stainless Steel Rat
Context: We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment.