Reptile Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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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
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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
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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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
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Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.
— David Bowie
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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
— Julia Roberts
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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
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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
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Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas
— Will Christopher Baer
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Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.
— Cressida Cowell
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We’re only human.†“One of us, anyway. The other’s a reptile.†“Harsh, Annabelle. Very harsh.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Nice creepy reptile,†Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. “Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile.
— Rick Riordan
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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
Who Wrote These Reptile Quotes
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