Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

“Intellectualism is a poor master over passion”

— Twe Stephens

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought…

— Chanakya

“When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant…

— Rick Riordan

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

— Charles Mackay

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous…

— Ambrose Bierce

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun…

— Khalil Gibran

“When we see this worldwide occurrence of the Goddess and her Serpent, and then recall the ancient African Black Goddess, the Black Witch, imaged…

— Monica Sjöö

In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore…

— Michael Tsarion

“The Serpent raises its head from the water and slides onto the ice, the stars blazing above in the night sky. The Turtle sinks…

— Kylie Chan

Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and…

— John Owen

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

The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names!…

— Jonathan Stroud

And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

— Alexander Pope

“Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of…

— William Shakespeare