Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse."
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Rabbits
159 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Richard Adams
Author
"I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself."
Barbara Kingsolver
Author, Biologist
"It's what you do that makes your soul."
Taylor Swift
Singer, Songwriter
"At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both."
Jack Ma
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
"If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one."
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"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"
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"We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture."
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"If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else."
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"Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate."
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"He who chases two rabbits, catches none."
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"The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to."
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"A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent."
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"Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."
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"Real isn't how you are made... It's a thing that happens to you."
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"It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself."
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"If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Kids love rabbits... they just like them."
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"I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit."
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"the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses"
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"Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones."
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"If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit."
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"Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us."
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"Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards"
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"The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience."
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