Scorpion Quotes
29 quotes by 28 authors
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There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked…
— Chanakya
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That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog.
— Karl Pilkington
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Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion…
— John Derbyshire
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If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If…
— Thomas Brooks
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Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.
— Will Hobbs
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A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the…
— Gregor Piatigorsky
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Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
— David Copperfield
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My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.
— Nissim Ezekiel
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The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.
— Dion Fortune
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Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood,…
— Woody Allen
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Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in…
— Edward Topsell
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I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
— John Podhoretz
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God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse…
— Rumi
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I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in…
— Gaston Leroux
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Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.
— Rick Riordan
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My name is Zia Rashid.†She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and…
— Rick Riordan
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Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.
— Suzanne Collins
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My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that…
— Jim Butcher
Who Wrote These Scorpion Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 29 Scorpion Quotes, led by these top contributors: