Rabbit Quotes & Sayings
“Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”
“Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.” – A.A. Milne
“Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.” – A.A. Milne
“Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.” – Cherise Sinclair
“Human beings say, “It never rains but it pours.” This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits’ proverb is better expressed. They say, “One cloud feels lonely”: and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast.” – Richard Adams
“Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken.” – Syed Ather
“Love is like a rabbit riding a turtle like a chariot. But that’s cool with me, because I know where it’s going, and I just took a taxi.” – Jarod Kintz
“The rabbit is already in the hat. Do not clap for … Tinkerbell. Believe nothing.” – Daryl Gregory
“If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.” – Mitch Hedberg
“You can’t be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.” – Brian Mulroney
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” – John Steinbeck
“I can hypnotize rabbits.” – Elena Anaya
“A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.” – Carl Sandburg
“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.” – Rod Serling
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.” – Edith Sitwell
“People’s dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It’s what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” – Barbara Kingsolver
“One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks – we locked them in my mum’s office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.” – Emilia Clarke
“There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we’re not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.” – David Suzuki
“The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.” – Stephen Wright
“You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I’ll buy you a new car.” – Harvey Diamond
“When Rabbit said, `Honey or condensed milk with your bread?’ he was so excited that he said, `Both,’ and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, `But don’t bother about the bread, please.’” – A. A. Milne
“The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.” – James Breithaupt
“EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other –which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in the pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of a dog.” – Ambrose Bierce
“MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot.” – Ambrose Bierce
“People can lose their worldly goods. They can lose their house. They can lose their car. They find their cat, their dog, their guinea pig or their rabbit and they feel like they have hope.” – Mark Goldstein
“I had a bad dream last night. Do you want to hear about it?”
“No.”
“Well I’ll tell you anyways. I was being chased in the woods by a bear, and you did nothing. You just sat there, and you didn’t do a thing.”
“What was I doing?”
“You were playing poker with a rabbit. And you would do that. You would play poker with a rabbit, while I’m being chased by a bear. But luckily a unicorn swooped down and saved me. The unicorn saved me, not you.” – Tim Hawkins
“No.”
“Well I’ll tell you anyways. I was being chased in the woods by a bear, and you did nothing. You just sat there, and you didn’t do a thing.”
“What was I doing?”
“You were playing poker with a rabbit. And you would do that. You would play poker with a rabbit, while I’m being chased by a bear. But luckily a unicorn swooped down and saved me. The unicorn saved me, not you.” – Tim Hawkins
PROVERBS
“A rabbit cannot be a war-horse and will only become a laughingstock if he should try.” – Darkovan
“The rain can only drown the rabbit if he hasn’t the wits to keep his mouth shut.” – Darkovan
“Underneath every bush you’ll find a rabbit ready to bolt.” – Darkovan
“When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice.” – Spanish
“A rat is not born a rabbit.” – Nigerian
“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.” – Russian
“A rabbit is never caught twice in the same place.” – American
“Having vision as sharp as a kite and hearing as keen as a rabbit.” – Sicilian
Such an amazing post! Although some of the proverbs are difficult to understand they made me think and wonder. One thing I would change, if I could. 🙂 “If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.” – Mitch Hedberg. Instead, I would say: “If hay got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.” 🙂