Rats desert a sinking ship.
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When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think
they're going?
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking
ERIC HOFFER And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what.
DAVID WONG Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his ...
MAX AITKEN Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his ...
LORD BEAVERBROOK It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship, ... But get real, when everyone ...
ROBBIE FOWLER It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is b...
ROBBIE FOWLER Sadness is the hole in a sinking ship
IAN IJH HOWELL The Prophet's Cam-u-el, that primal Desert Ship.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN That requires the heavy lift ship to actually ballast or flood down. It could appear to the casual o...
JOHN LOCKWOOD I have not yet begun to fight (as his ship was sinking, 23 September 1779)
JOHN PAUL JONES His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship...
EDMUND WILSON My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Seco...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
DANIEL CLOWES If we were on a sinking ship, and there was only one life vest... I would miss you so much.
ANONYMOUS But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
SARAH DESSEN If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It...
KIRK CAMERON Love alone will not be able to prevent your marriage ship from sinking if the union is lacking chara...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you let people whose ship is sinking into your ship, the chances of yours to sink will be very hi...
MORAKENG SEKGOKA They are moving around the deck chairs on a sinking ship but are trying to convince the American pub...
LEO LINBECK We are at sea in a sinking ship, our citizens are treading water to stay afloat, and now New Jersey ...
JOE SINAGRA Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. ...
SARAH PALIN There is no dilemma compared with that of the deep-sea diver who hears the message from the ship abo...
ROBERT COOPER The policymakers and political leaders in Memphis and Shelby County cannot accept a business-as-usua...
DREW JOHNSON A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship fo...
BILLY CAMPBELL Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS The Big Blue ship is leaking and creaking, and the new skipper says there's no need to change, ... J...
BOB DJURDJEVIC In the future, I expect to see bitcoin mining in places where electricity is free or cheap. You coul...
GAVIN ANDRESEN I’d already said too much, giving my hand away. Yet I found myself lost on an island of need, peer...
TERRI E. LAINE Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminate...
GUNTER GRASS Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean...
PAUL HAWKEN I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The park started sinking because there wasn't a profit center built in out there. To further its sin...
JACK MATHERS Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear re...
KATE DICAMILLO We hadn't seen any rats or evidence of rats until the school district started the eradication progra...
JIM LOVELL Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (English Proverb.
UNKNOWN A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Happier than a terrier in a barrel full of rats
TERRY PRATCHETT She basically tricked us, ... We kind of didn't know what was going on ... (but) she gave us the sho...
ALEX DESERT Sometimes these things happen when you've got eight brothers and you have them in the same room, ......
ALEX DESERT We've got all kinds of good memories of Hawaii. Everybody was always really cool.
ALEX DESERT The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Una ardilla es una rata, lo que un unicornio es una mula.
LUIS ALBERTO BRAVO I'm deathly afraid of rats.
JODI LYN O'KEEFE Pug said: “I’m trying to think of the best way of knocking you off.”
“The Chinese do it...
JONATHAN LATIMER The rats we met the size of small dogs and they watched us go by like they'd figured out that what P...
SARAH MONETTE And the rats eat my face. So what.
SARAH KANE If my love must be a rodent, then shall I be anything but a rat?
LYNNE JONELL The rat gave birth. Six little ones...cute baby rats... None of them are like Hitler.
YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI The rats know we are closing in on them,
RICK LYNCH It will be impossible to catch all the rats, my love,” he says. His hand brushes against mine. “...
MARIE LU How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
MAGNUS LARSSON A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1) A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
ANONYMOUS We do not pick up the rats. It's up to the homeowners to pick up the rats and dispose of them proper...
DOUG CLARK Frat Rats Run Amok on Drag.
CHRIS BELL Rats wouldn't even go in there.
GARY TURNER A great ship askes deepe waters.
[A great ship asks deep waters.]
GEORGE HERBERT Fast bind, fast find--
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. Russian proverb
RUSSIAN PROVERB Keep your heads up! We are sinking!
LJUPKA CVETANOVA No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
JAMES JOYCE My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire
JAMES JOYCE A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
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