That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
“There are hardly films of substance to be found today because the gods have all succumbed to the fangs of the serpent.” — VD Copy Share Image
Can escape the serpent's bite hurt a bit but hurt the woman's water demand can not! — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“There are no good films today because the gods all have succumbed to the fangs of the serpent.” — VD Copy Share Image
“He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into his arms.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
“Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Let the storm rage and the sky darken — not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee." I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“[The Christian story] amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World. But the meanness,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“with sin. Eve was tempted by a serpent (a phallic power symbol). It is interesting to note that the serpent has always… — Christopher Hyatt Copy Share Image
![“[The Christian story] amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every natural impulse is sinful unless it has been circumcised or baptized. The serpent was the one who brought sin into the wold. And the woman was the one who handed the…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/82b/joseph-campbell-300_adam_the-christian-story-amounts-to-a-refusal_170106.jpg)
