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Reptile Quotes

"Method is more important than strength . . . By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed to have a passerby kill the snake for the beads."
- Siddha Nagarjuna

When you see a snake you just kill it; don't appoint a committee on snakes.
- Chris Noble

"When you see a snake, never mind where he came from."
- Unknown

"Never wound a snake, kill it."
- Harriet Tubman

"A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing."
- Jessamyn West

"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

"Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way."
- Kate Seredy

"[Americans] are the great Satan, the wounded snake."
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

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

Snake
A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
To drink there.
- D H Lawrence

Eclogues no. 3
There's a snake hidden in the grass.
- Virgil

The Spider and the Fly
"Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly;
"'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy."
- Mary Howitt

An Essay on Man
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
- Alexander Pope

"I identify most strongly with the turtle: I patiently plod along till I reach my destination--and occasionally I stick out my neck."
- Paulette Peltan

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
- James Bryant Conant

Autres Betes, Autres Moeurs
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix to be so fertile.
- Ogden Nash