A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man. — Martin Delany Copy Share Image
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent. — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
“Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot… — John Donne 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
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by… — Gary North Copy Share Image
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more… — Euripides Copy Share Image
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior. — H. P. Blavatsky 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
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion;… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“The curse is broken. The king is returned." He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
