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Lily Tomlin

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

Source : Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

Lily Tomlin

#Inspirational Quotes #Funny Quotes #Witty Quotes

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.”
“The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.”
“I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.”
“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”
“All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.”
“I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.”
“I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.”
“Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.”

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

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