Snakes Quotes
383 quotes by 316 authors
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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
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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
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With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't…
— Marlon Brando
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
— Nicolas Cage
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Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the…
— Nicolas Cage
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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
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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
— Chanakya
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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
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You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
— Dan Barker
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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
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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
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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
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Love hath made thee a tame snake
— William Shakespeare
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
— Walt Whitman
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Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have…
— A. Whitney Brown
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I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.
— Eugene McCarthy
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There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
— Bertrand Russell
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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
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Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as…
— William S. Burroughs
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...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
Who Wrote These Snakes Quotes
316 authors contributed a total of 383 Snakes Quotes, led by these top contributors: