Reptile Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough… — Humphry Davy
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders… — Oliver Goldsmith
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. — Edmund Burke
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a… — May Kendall
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited… — Carl Sagan
If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it… — Albert Einstein
Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile. — David Bowie
FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs — Ambrose Bierce
Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of… — Ambrose Bierce
An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and… — William Cowper
What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to… — Jean de la Bruyere
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. — Julia Roberts
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition? — T.H. White
Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas — Will Christopher Baer
Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile. — Cressida Cowell
Weâ€™re only human.â€ â€œOne of us, anyway. The otherâ€™s a reptile.â€ â€œHarsh, Annabelle. Very harsh. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Nice creepy reptile,â€ Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. â€œNice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile. — Rick Riordan
It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.' 'WHY DO YOU… — Meg Rosoff

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