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.

“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)