Wendell Johnson Quotes

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.

I am not a fan of rats or pigeons. In New York City, they have become very confident. When I was a child, you went on the subways, and the rats would stay down on the tracks, but now they hang out on the platform.

Rodents are pests and not pets, and anything that manically runs around a wheel 24/7 and occasionally has 19 babies in the middle of the night should not be brought into the house.

Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to be made sharp, effective, fast and flexible. This requires simplification of processes and having trust in citizens. This needs a Policy Driven State.

I like normal, simple, good people.

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.

A great man is one sentence.

The young never take anything seriously if it sounds simple.

The taste of rain -- Why kneel?

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

I believe when you say you're going to start a race at 2 p.m. then you should stick to that and start the race at 2 p.m. There's no maybe, could be or should be. You start the race on time. It's very simple.