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Serpent Quotes by Mark Twain
- It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely…
- Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.…
More Serpent Quotes
- The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these… — Chanakya
- There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion;… — Chanakya
- A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his… — Symeon the New Theologian
- Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy... — Abraham Lincoln
- When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes… — Joseph Addison
- Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. — Thomas More
- It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better… — Mark Twain
- Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers… — Charles Spurgeon