Snake Quotes

273 quotes by 236 authors

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its… — Annie Besant
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig,… — Ambrose Bierce
Every great story seems to begin with a snake. — Nicolas Cage
The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that… — James Cameron
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. — Chanakya
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. — Jean Anouilh
Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and… — Marianne Williamson
The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its… — Sun Tzu
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be… — Mao Zedong
Love hath made thee a tame snake — William Shakespeare
I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland. — Eugene McCarthy
It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing… — Victor Borge
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were… — Clarence Darrow
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot… — Albertus Magnus
They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a… — H. L. Mencken
The only reason Jake 'The Snake' Roberts doesn't drink and drive anymore is because he is afraid he might hit a bump and spill his… — Jerry Lawler
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one… — Mahatma Gandhi
As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one… — Will Cuppy
These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science. — Sarah Palin

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