Dove Quote by Christopher Marlowe

“Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!”

— Mark Twain

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of…

— Syncletica of Alexandria

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.

— Hilda Doolittle

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

— George Herbert

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave…

— George Savile

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

— William Shakespeare

“There’s an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as…

— Larissa Ione

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.

— Mary Oliver

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

— William Hazlitt

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness…

— Francis Bacon