...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of…

— Nathalia Crane

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

— Chanakya

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than…

— Euripides

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight,…

— Pliny the Elder

“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent…

— Mark Twain

Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

— Edward Topsell

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

— Khalil Gibran

Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

— Philip Freneau

“I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more…

— Rudyard Kipling

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is…

— Henry David Thoreau

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

— Lewis Carroll

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

— Lewis Carroll

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

— Lewis Carroll

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

— Lewis Carroll