“Rats desert a sinking ship.”
Proverb
“It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking”
Eric Hoffer
“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
“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
“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat”
Winston Churchill
“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”
W. C. Fields
“And old rat is a brave rat.”
French Proverb
