Bitten Quotes
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Frankly speaking, it is difficult to trust the Chinese.Once bitten bya snake,
you feel suspicious even when you see a piece of rope.
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More Bitten Quotes
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.
jean-louis gassée— Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, 1999
— As President of Apple Products, speaking on the Apple logo
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Bible (Old Testament)— Numbers 21:9.
This is a case of a barmaid who was badly bitten by a big dog.
denning, alfred, baron denning— Cummings v. Granger [1977] 1 All ER 104 at 106
I wish I had an origin story for you. When I was four, I was bitten by a radioactive myth.
neil gaiman— On how his interest in mythology started, in an interview with Bookslut (October 2006)
Wenn schöne Weiber bitten, muss man es schaffen doch, Und schöne Weiber bitten, indem sie schweigen noch.
Friedrich von Logau— sehr frei nach Sinngedichte II, 3, 19
Zeno, the disciple of Parmenides , having attempted to kill the tyrant Demylus, and failing in his design, maintained the doctrine of Parmenides, like pure and fine gold tried in the fire, that there is nothing which a magnanimous man ought to dread but dishonor, and that there are none but children and women, or effeminate and women-hearted men, who fear pain. For, having with his own teeth bitten off his tongue, he spit it in the tyrant's face.
— Plutarch, in "Against Colotes the Epicurean" in Morals
The tide of undecipherable signatures of mutinous adolescents which has washed over and bitten into the facades of monuments and the surface of public vehicles in the city where I live: graffiti as an assertion of disrespect, yes, but most of all simply an assertion... the powerless saying: I'm here, too.
Susan Sontag— "The Pleasure of the Image" (1985) from Writers on Artists edited by Daniel Halpern (1988), p. 98, North Point Press ISBN 0-86547-340-4
