Snakes Quotes - Page 4

Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for unformed words, for a secret code engraved there. Tengo's own tongue responded unconsciously to this movement and soon their tongues were like two young snakes in a spring meadow, newly wakened from their hibernation and hungrily intertwining, each led on by the other's scent.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

I really think I like poisonous snakes.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.

My fear in life, I don't have any kind of specifics like snakes or spiders or anything but I think if I was covered in buttermilk naked running down the street being chased by Gandalf, I'd say, or I don't know, I'm just making it up!

I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms.

No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!

The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

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 side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.