We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God . — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there… — Cesare Borgia Copy Share Image
“Humans suffered the darkness of ignorance until the serpent introduced them to the light of reason and the bright illumination of knowledge… — David Sinclair Copy Share Image
The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers. — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no… — Henry Walter Bates 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
Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares… — Robert Graham Copy Share Image
Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill. — John Florio Copy Share Image
The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
