Rats Fed

Famous quotes containing the words rats and/or fed:

“When the cat’s away, the rats dance on the table.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.

“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)