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).
I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
edward abbey— "Serpents of Paradise", p. 18
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'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.
A greyhound should be heeded lyke a snake, And neckyd lyke a drake, Backed lyke a bream, Footed lyke a catte, Taylled lyke a ratte.
Dame Juliana or Juliana Barnes Berners— 1486 Treatyse perteynynge to Hawkynge, Huntynge, Fyshynge, and Coote Armiris.
There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.
ernst kaltenbrunner— To Leon Goldensohn, 6/6/46, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - Page 151 - History - 2004
I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health.
sarah silverman— To Pamela Anderson on the Comedy Central Roast (14 August 2005)
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, in Lords and Ladies (1992)
The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
robert frost— "The Ax-Helve" (1923)
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))
The American assault on Ireland under the name of Fenianism may be now held to have failed, but the snake is only scotched and not killed. It is far from from impossible that the American conspirators may try and obtain in our North American provinces compensation for their defeat in Ireland.
temple, henry, 3rd viscount palmerston— Letter to Lord de Grey (27 September 1865), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), p. 581.
We have scotched the snake, not killed it: She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of our former tooth.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 13.
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 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.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one it flies as well as creeps.
— Douglas Jerrold, Specimens of Jerrold's Wit, Slander.
If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring humans, and from the same mouth you started devouring humans, you cried out to me 'I love you,' would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?
— Who: Gin Ichimaru
— Notes: To Rangiku, in his dying thoughts
"It's a little lonely in the desert..." "It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake.
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, in The Little Prince, Ch. XVII
A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), Part II, line 156.
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.
snake handling is based on a passage in the Bible that says a sign of a true believer is the power to "take up serpents" without being harmed.
— In "Woman fatally bitten by snake in church". USA Today. 11 August 2006. Retrieved on 2 January 2014.
snake virus is a natural secretion provided for the distinct physiological purpose of enabling the reptile to secure its prey.
— In p.536 (Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life)
So glistered the dire snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book DC, line 643.
