A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of… — N. F. Simpson Copy Share Image
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop… — Ervin Seale Copy Share Image
I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the… — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the… — Edward Topsell Copy Share Image
Please nothing, she’s a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories. — Rachel Hunter Copy Share Image
A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without… — Gregor Piatigorsky Copy Share Image
The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
“He was horrible and fascinating all at once, like a scorpion prepared to strike, all angles and sharp lines and menace.” — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
