Adam Quote by Mark Twain

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

— Mark Twain

“I wanted what was forbidden, and wrong, and fucking crazy. I wanted my partner's daughter, who was nearly half my age.”

— L.J. Shen

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…

— Mark Twain

“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent…

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

“The Serpent raises its head from the water and slides onto the ice, the stars blazing above in the night sky. The Turtle sinks…

— Kylie Chan

In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore…

— Michael Tsarion

“When we see this worldwide occurrence of the Goddess and her Serpent, and then recall the ancient African Black Goddess, the Black Witch, imaged…

— Monica Sjöö

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun…

— Khalil Gibran

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous…

— Ambrose Bierce

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

— Charles Mackay

Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant…

— Rick Riordan