Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat. — Viktor Korchnoi
A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals. — Ingrid Newkirk
Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write. — Suzanne Collins
I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time. — Catherine Deneuve
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. — Ingrid Newkirk
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. — Wendell Berry
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience. — B. F. Skinner
Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male. — Alfred Kinsey
I like squirrels. Theyre so adventurous. — Gabby Douglas
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. — T. Casey Brennan
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. — Winston Churchill
All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode. — Betty White
The mice are fighting over the neighbor's yeast. — Moroccan Proverbs
How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat? — Suge Knight
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. — W. C. Fields
A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost. — Terry Pratchett
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes — Julian Clary
Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. — Preston Manning
You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants. — Bill Watterson
I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore. — Anthony Bourdain
I'm not a big-game hunter. I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. — Mitt Romney
When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee. — Pliny The Elder
You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf! — Laini Taylor
You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent. — Nalini Singh
Vermin Quotes
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. — Aneurin Bevan
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth. — Jonathan Swift
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. — Aldous Huxley
Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing. — Woody Allen
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. — Henry Ward Beecher
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts. — Olaf Stapledon
There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London. — Stephen Sondheim
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin. — Theodore Roethke
The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin. — Henry Ward Beecher
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright
Mankind invented the atomic bomb,
but no mouse would ever construct
a mousetrap. — Albert Einstein
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role. — Helio Gracie
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent. — Anthony of Padua
No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat. — Deng Xiaoping
I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak. — Sitting Bull
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. — Robert Burns
It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. — Deng Xiaoping
Micky Mouse is the aspiration of every Argentine politician because he is a disgusting rodent whom everybody loves. — Javier Milei
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. — Umberto Eco
I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things. — Liz Truss
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr
Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice. — David Feherty
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. — Umberto Eco
Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage! — Wayne Dyer
Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents. — Robert Pierce
The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. — June Callwood
Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function. — William S. Burroughs
Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road. — Tibor Fischer
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
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya. — Igor Stravinsky
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything — E. B. White
You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance. — Terry Pratchett
But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats. — Terry Pratchett
The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes. — Terry Pratchett
Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander. — Harriet Harman
The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight. — Erma Bombeck
Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head. — P. J. O'Rourke
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man. — Thomas Huxley
I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person. — Ethan Embry
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood. — Katherine Dunn
Let’s find someplace where there aren’t any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that’s big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara) Picky, picky, picky. (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.’ (Kiara) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie," Puck said. — Michael Buckley
Your father wasn’t a positive influence on you, was he? (Simone) Being the god of nightmares, he wasn’t a warm fuzzy bunny. Unless you count Happy Bunny. Amazingly the two of them have a lot in common…And I have to say that I’ve developed a fondness for that pissy rodent. (Xypher) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I’d thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she’d shown. Soon, though, I’d figured out the animals’ true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food. — Kelley Armstrong
Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents. — Jean Ferris
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten. — Temple Grandin
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