Quotes About Snakes

Why do lawyers never get bitten by snakes?" "I give up. Why do lawyers never get bitten by snakes?" "Professional courtesy.

On my Tree of Paradise, I intend to put a border of snakes entwined; they will look like vines or just a cable pattern to others, as I will make the eyes very small, but they will be snakes to me; as without a snake or two, the main part of the story would be missing.

Snakes. How fitting. Not only are they sacred to Egypt, but associated with the power of the underworld and with fertility. Perhaps I did you a favor by refusing more conventional poisons.

death is not the enemy; snakes are. And cheese: it is addictive and irresistible. I have had three kinds so far today.

One wouldn't want to consult with foreign snakes.

Clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars," she drove in on a chariot drawn by lions, bearing a staff entwined with snakes and brandishing her eagle wings like parasails.

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of The Natural History of Iceland, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: "Ch. LXXII. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island."

knew nonpoisonous snakes from the baddies, a lesson she still remembered

This is the Italy I dreamed of, saints, snakes, gypsies, cutthroats in a baroque tutu of religion and sin.

When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

Ich hasse Schlangen«, sagte Russ. »Verdammt, Junge«, versetzte Sam, »das sind doch bloß Eidechsen ohne Beine.«

For example, Patrick did not run the snakes out of Ireland. Writing two hundred years before Patrick's time, the Greek geographer Solinus remarked that Ireland was free of snakes. There is no record of Patrick using the shamrock to teach the Irish about the Trinity. Neither did he have any dealings with leprechauns

How can the lord of goblins, the delighter in graveyards, the naked devotee covered with ashes, haggard in appearance, wearing twisted locks ornamented with snakes, be the supreme being?

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.

Rawson points out that although snakes can't taste, they have a primitive sense of smell. They'll extend their tongue to gather volatile molecules and then pull it back in and plug it into the vomeronasal organ at the roof of the mouth to get a reading. Snakes are keenly attuned to the aroma of favored prey—so much so that if you slip a rat's face and hide, Hannibal Lecter–style, over the snout of a non-favored prey item, a python will try to swallow it.

Sasuke: Snakes can sense things through temperature, and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell in the mouth. Itachi: You've learnt a lot...Dr. Snakes

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

The worst of all possible snakes is the eternal human proclivity for evil. The worst of all possible snakes is psychological, spiritual, personal, internal.

The worst of all possible snakes is the eternal human proclivity for evil. The worst of all possible snakes is psychological, spiritual, personal, internal. No walls, however tall, will keep that out. Even if the fortress were thick enough, in principle, to keep everything bad whatsoever outside, it would immediately appear again within.

All these heroes act out what was perhaps the greatest discovery ever made by man's primordial ancestors: if you have the vision and the courage (and a good stout stick, when necessary), you can chase away the worst of snakes.

At some point in our evolutionary and cultural history, we began to understand that human evil could rightly be considered the greatest of all snakes.

My wife makes 99% of the rules in our house, but one rule I insisted on, when the kids were small, is that I wasn't going to have "pets" in the house that aren't really pets. Fish, birds, cats, dogs… that's fine. No spiders, ferrets, snakes, gerbils, hamsters; if you would kill the thing if it came into the house on its own, that's not a pet.