“We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where the water is freezing and dark, a great black Serpent sleeps in the mud.” — Kylie Chan Copy Share Image
Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Just cause niggas get behind you don't mean they got your back Beware of the serpent... — Xzibit Copy Share Image
What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? — Khalil Gibran 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
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead… — William Sharp 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
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its… — Friedrich Schiller 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
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering… — John C. Wright 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
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
There's hockey and football players tougher than me, there's gangbangers tougher than me. But my toughness is more, Jesus said "Be of… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The Serpent sleeps buried in the silken mud at the bottom of the sea. The water is freezing and dark and suffocating.… — Kylie Chan Copy Share Image
I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa 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
When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
