Chinese Horoscopes:
The Rat

Rat: 1960 Metal, 1972 Water, 1984 Wood, 1996 Fire, 2008 Earth
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Rats in 2009 - Many guardian angels will help you. It’s a year of successful cooperation, affection and innovation. For 1924, slower is better. Avoid impetuousness. Enjoy fun activities, but shun too much excitement. A low-key birthday party is better than a big celebration. For 1936, speculate on an investment opportunity, but don’t be too urgent or greedy or it will certainly fail. For 1948, guardian angels help you. Cooperate for success. For 1960, anticipate attention from the opposite sex. If married, mind your spouse. For 1972, focus on your career. Fall in the snares of love and the opposite of your desires will come. For 1984, you’re flush with success, but beware. When love is too proud, status is frustrated. For 1996, beware of digestive ailments. All rats should be open to success this year, but avoid being trapped by love affairs. Increase your understanding and effort and you’ll harvest more.

1/5–2/4: Take more time communicating to others.  Good interpersonal relationships will lead to an unexpected windfall in your business. 

2/4-3/5: There are many good opportunities now.  Don’t let them slip by.  Don’t be stuck in a box.  Innovate! 

3/5-4/4: Love abounds, filled with exultation.  But don’t delay work because of it.

4/4-5/5: Prepare to meet unavoidable personal entanglements.  Family matters are most disturbed.  Deal with it.  You’ll be anxious to succeed. 

5/5-6/5: Handle your affairs with single-hearted devotion.  You achieve abundance as long as it’s not you just being noisy and energetic.  If you do that, you’ll lose more than you gain.

6/5 –7/7: Change is in the air.  Make the best of the situation.  Don’t be anxious to succeed.  Do the things that you know best.  

7/7– 8/7: Interpersonal relationships are sketchy.  You easily offend others.  Be patient with how you handle your affairs.  Talk less.  Do more.  Be good. 

"Honesty is very sexy."
Rat Valerie Bertinelli

"I think that if you love something so much you have to do it."
Rat Ashlee Simpson

"Optimism doesn't wait on facts.  It deals with prospects.  Pessimism is a waste of time."
Rat Norman Cousins

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
Rat Diane Ackerman

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
Rat W. Edwards Deming

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."
Rat Herbert Henry Asquith

"The well of true wit is truth itself."
Rat George Meredith

"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."
Rat John McCain

"The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision."
Rat James Lee Burke

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
Rat May Sarton

"Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives."
Rat Maurice Chevalier

"He makes a beast of himself to get rid of the pain of being a man."
Rat Ralph Steadman

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
Rat Clarence Thomas

"It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice."
Rat Alyssa Milano

"I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside."
Rat Donna Summer

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
Rat John Cage

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"
Rat Terry Pratchett

"Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking"
Rat Lee Iacocca

"The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it."
Rat Clark Gable

"In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms."
Rat Max Roach

"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth. "
Rat Henrik Ibsen

"Originality is going back to origins."
Rat Antoni Gaudi

"I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem."
Rat Jim Brown

"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."
Rat Charles Caleb Colton

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
Rat Omar Khayyam

"I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? Why do I have to stop?"
Rat John Belushi

"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."
Rat Hal Borland

"It doesn't matter how old you are, if you're a jock, you still think you have three plays in you."
Rat Burt Reynold

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Rat Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It doesn't matter how old you are, if you're a jock, you still think you have three plays in you."
Rat Burt Reynold

"Fashions fade - style is eternal."
Rat Yves Saint Lauren

"Even should one zealously strive to learn the Way, that very striving will make one’s error more"
Rat Bai Juyi

"Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism."
Rat George Moore

"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
Rat Pablo Casals

"I thought always, with the age all become lighter. But life becomes ever more complicated and more stressful."
Rat Ursula Andress

"Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer."
Rat Gene Kelly

"The first duty of the revolutionary is to get away with it."
Rat Abbey Hoffman

"No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
Rat Al Gore

"If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out."
Rat Louis Armstrong

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
Rat John Madden

"If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."
Rat Woody Guthrie

"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."
Rat Rosa Parks

"We can't all be lion tamers."
Rat T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)

"This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain."
Rat Shaquille O'Neil

"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
Rat Emile Zola

"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
Rat Jimmy Carter

"It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way."
Rat Marlon Brando

"But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison."
Rat Truman Capote

"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it."
Rat George Foreman

"So my wandering among the sciences, far from freeing me from my despair, only strengthened it."
Rat Leo Tolstoy
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"When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with."
Rat William Shakespeare

"To err is nature, to rectify error is glory."
Rat George Washington

"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them."
Rat George Bush

"I've been an evangelist on the subject. Both of my Kung Fu series on television were infomercials for the art."
Rat David Carradine

"I am the Fred Astaire of karate."
Rat Jean-Claude Van Damme

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