Arbiter Quote by Ambrose Bierce

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

— Ambrose Bierce

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

— Herman Melville

“The worst things I knows of is rattlesnakes and some kinds o’ people. And a rattlesnake minds his own matters if he ain’t bothered.…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like…

— William Gilmore Simms

I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

— Joe Teti

I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we ate it.

— Joe Teti

Everybody knew that you should never provoke a rattlesnake, much less tie it into a bow. But that didn't stop Judd. What did stop…

— Demetri Martin

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

— Ross Macdonald

Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize…

— Sam Keen

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

— Richard Bach

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in…

— Alistair Cooke

WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling…

— Larry McMurtry