“It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking”
Eric Hoffer
“Rats desert a sinking ship.”
Proverb
“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.”
Robbie Fowler
“Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.”
Gunter Grass
“We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats”
Herbert Clark Hoover
“Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.”
Garrison Keillor
