Snake 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 Snake Quotes
The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.
Pat Nixon— 1973 On Watergate. Letter to a friend, quoted in Julie Nixon Eisenhower Pat Nixon (1986).
My old daddy used to say, "Kill the closest snake first".
john dingell— PBS Online NewsHour, August 18, 2003. [1]
Revenge is like a two-headed snake. While you watch your opponent go down, you get poisoned yourself.
— Air Nomad saying in "The Southern Raiders" episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and "Two-Headed Rat Viper" at Avatar Wikia
The thing about words is that meaning can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
terry pratchett— Lords and Ladies (1992)
Are not your kisses then as filthy, and more, As a worm sucking an envenomed sore? Doth not thy fearful hand in felling quake, As one which gathering flowers, still fears a snake? Is not your last act harsh, and violent, As when a plough a stony ground doth rent?
john donne— c.1595 Elegies, no.8,'The Comparison'.
I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
edward abbey— "Serpents of Paradise", p. 18
I've probably saved thousands of people's lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything. Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
steve irwin— Online interview at Scientific American online (sciam.com) (26 March 2001)
Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.
hugo chávez— Referring to Mr Aznar as a fascist, November 2007.[25]
Constantly affirmed by our scientific experimentalistson, snake venom that ‘as yet no antidote to them has been found'. Remedies there are in abundance and it is just as great an error to believe that all snake venom is curable.
— In p.532 (Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life)
Other great rivers add power to you / Yakima, snake, and the Klickitat, too / Sandy, Willamette and Hood River too / So roll on, Columbia, roll on
— Woody Guthrie (1941), "Roll on Columbia"
There's only room for one Boss... and one snake...
— Who: The Boss in video game Metal Gear Solid V
— Note: Shot by Snake with the Patriot gun in the final duel.
You entered my aura and fell into my arms. I just wrapped around you like a snake that's been charmed.
amber (pop star)— "You Move Me", My Kind of World (2004).
Most people erroneously call this snake the Puff Adder, Beach Adder, or Blowing Viper. So, naturally, they kill it.
will cuppy— [Footnote:] The Hog-Nosed Snake
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
elinor glyn— Three Weeks (1907), ch. 11.
The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
robert frost— "The Ax-Helve" (1923)
There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid;
But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the sea
In the heel of the North-East Trade.
— The Long Trail, Stanza 5.
I had built a little cabin in Yosemite, and for convenience in getting water, and for the sake of music and society, I led a small stream from Yosemite Creek into it. Running along the side of the wall it was not in the way, and it had just fall enough to ripple and sing in low, sweet tones, making delightful company, especially at night when I was lying awake. Then a few frogs came in and made merry with the stream, and one snake.
john muir— chapter 6: Among the Animals of the Yosemite
As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.
ramakrishna— p. 30 (Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960))
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— l. 1060. (Hellas (1821))
a scarlet tanagerin Costa Rica had been attracted out of tree down close to a snake by its quivering tongue, the only moving thing about it.
— In p.530 (Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life)
There have been snake people ( nagas or nags) and their rulers and their rulers, commonly multiheaded cobras, in Hindu mythology since antiquity.
— In page 82 (Plants of Life, Plants of Death)
Of Adam’s first wife , Lilith , it is told (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve) That, ere, the snake ’s, her sweet tongue could deceive , And her enchanter hair was the first gold .
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in “The Routledge Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations”, p.84
Look, we're both snake oil salesman to a certain extent, but we do label the show as snake oil here. Isn't there a problem selling snake oil as vitamin tonic?
— Jon Stewart (March 12, 2009). "CNBC Criticism and Jim Cramer Interview". The Daily Show.
There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid.
rudyard kipling— Rudyard Kipling, The Long Trail, L'Envoi to Departmental Duties.
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened Man's forgiveness give and take!
omar khayyám— Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 81. (later ed). Stanza an interpolation of FitzGerald's own.
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas, last chorus; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
If you annoy the Hog-nosed snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up , he will roll over to prove that he is dead. [Footnote:] While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.
will cuppy— The Hog-Nosed Snake
The student of development finds, not only that the chick commences its existence as an egg, primarily identical, in all essential respects, with that of the Dog, but that the yelk of this egg undergoes division that the primitive groove arises, and that the contiguous parts of the germ are fashioned, by precisely similar methods into a young chick, which, at one stage of its existence, is so like the nascent Dog, that ordinary inspection would hardly distinguish the two. The history of the development of any other vertebrate animal, Lizard, snake, Frog, or Fish, tells the same story.
thomas henry huxley— Ch.2, p.79
"For one crime there is no asylum even in the Club," whispered Horace the snake, who had sharp ears for whispering. "For all other crimes we give asylum, for the most heinous crime in the universe we give no asylum." "What is the most heinous crime in the universe?" Roadstrum asked. "Killing a songbird."
r. a. lafferty— Ch. 7 (Space Chantey (1968))
