Top 100 A Snake Quotes
#1. Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry.
Joseph Fink
#2. Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up.
John Grisham
#3. The only reason Jake 'The Snake' Roberts doesn't drink and drive anymore is because he is afraid he might hit a bump and spill his drink.
Jerry Lawler
#4. A profession is like a great snake that wraps itself around you. Once you are enwrapped, you are in a slow fight for the rest of your life, and the lightness of youth leaves you.
Mark Helprin
#5. When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.
Rumi
#6. I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
Alan Arkin
#7. Then go get dressed for your Master,"Danny said with a slow,dark smile."The snake and Eve worked together,you and I will too. We'll make sure our Adam enjoys Eden before he leaves. We'll give himstrawberry so sweet it will sustain him through a whole, miserable lifetime of bland vanilla.
Kele Moon
#8. She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.
Neil Gaiman
#9. I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.
Henry Rollins
#10. I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
Anais Nin
#11. If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs ... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.
Dick Van Patten
#12. Life is a game of snakes and ladders, sir. You are steadily progressing accros the board, rolling sixes on the dice and thinking you are going to win - suddenly you land on a long snake and slide several rows down, far away from the destination again. -Mr. Ali-
Farahad Zama
#13. Hekate smacked the mirror down. "I'd never fancy you," she retorted to Hermes. "And if you ever try to kiss me, I'll
I'll keep a snake hidden in my clothes and make it bite you. On the lips. And on both ears."
"See, your threats are still age twelve," Hermes said. "I'll help you work on that.
Molly Ringle
#14. But somehow, every time there's a natural disaster, news crews manage to track down one of these outdoorsy yahoos to interview about how the "twister came a-screamin' down the holler" and destroyed the snake farm his family had been running for generations.
Molly Harper
#15. I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Love is fatal; a snake that slithers into your life, poisons you with its venom and then leaves you there to die.
Callie Anderson
#17. The Devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan first came to the first man in the form of a snake and whispered to Adam that true happiness was not to be found in prayer but in Eve's cunt.
Joe Hill
#18. I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
Kristin Davis
#19. I'm embracing new technology to record my songs, and it's a wonderful way to interact with people who love Whitesnake and help spread the gospel of the 'Snake, and I'm having fun doing it.
David Coverdale
#20. Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
Jon Stewart
#21. Is this Dornish wine?" Tyrion asked him once, as he pulled a stopper from a skin. "It reminds me of a certain snake I knew. A droll fellow, till a mountain fell on him.
George R R Martin
#22. We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.
David Sobel
#23. I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Steve Irwin
#24. I'd sooner go through with a pregnancy than spend a night alone in my house knowing there was a snake in the yard.
Chelsea Handler
#25. A soldier would snake his way painfully through rocks and rubble to set up a light machine gun, raise his head cautiously to aim, and find a dozen natives clustered solemnly around him. Street
Rick Atkinson
#26. But when Tel Hasani wasn't looking, he cast a worried eye over the snake, just incase there were any family resemblances.
Darren Shan
#27. Be quiet as a Hebi, a snake and quick as a Kitsune, a fox, the two cardinal rules of being a paparazzi.
Vann Chow
#28. What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?"
"Over my dead body."
"Could be, Tim, could be.
Gini Koch
#29. As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn't understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife.
Rick Riordan
#30. My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.
Mem Fox
#31. You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.
Erma Bombeck
#32. The Claudians," I observed, "are a family of insane hereditary criminals.
John Maddox Roberts
#33. Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.
Michelle M. Pillow
#35. Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.
Michael Zaslow
#36. Success takes patience like a snake stalking it's prey.
Brigitta Moon
#37. Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl.
"Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin.
Maria V. Snyder
#38. What do Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and a beer bottle have in common? They're both empty from the neck up!
Jerry Lawler
#39. Coraline also explored for animals. She found a hedgehog, and a snakeskin )but no snake), and a rock that looked just like a frog, and a toad that looked just like a rock.
Neil Gaiman
#40. 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
#41. He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't there, but it could be recoiled.
Tim O'Brien
#42. I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.
Stephen King
#43. There was room for all of us in that drainpipe even with the snake there. But if you're not wanted, there's no amount of space that will make a difference.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#44. Jealousy was a fat, chalk-white snake in his chest. It writhed slowly, as pure as innocence and childishly plain.
Replaceable. He was ... replaceable.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#45. If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
Ross Perot
#46. If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of chaos. Without his skin he will be dismantled, lose coherence and die. Have you, my little serpents, a new skin?
Tony Kushner
#47. Fire seemed about ready to shoot out of her eyes. "Yeah, he's changed all right. He used to be a snake in the grass, and now he's slitherin' out in the open.
Denise Grover Swank
#48. It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That
Junot Diaz
#49. Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our family tree. It must have broken her heart, to know that I was next.
Nathan Filer
#50. But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.
Earl Long
#51. Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.
Kami Garcia
#52. St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.
Conan O'Brien
#53. The very word virus began as a contradiction. We inherited the word from the Roman Empire, where it meant, at once, the venom of a snake or the semen of a man. Creation and destruction in one word.
Carl Zimmer
#54. The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.
Pat Nixon
#55. I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
Dane Cook
#56. Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines - generous, gum-yielding trees - to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.
Amy Gerstler
#57. Benson just stares at me. "Could you do anything ... I don't know, supernatural when you were little?"
"Yeah, I made the glass on a snake's cage disappear right before my acceptance letter from Hogwarts arrived."
Benson just raises an eyebrow at me.
Aprilynne Pike
#58. Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W.C. Fields
#59. I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.
Freedy Johnston
#60. His green eyes sparkled. 'I think you're the first girl I've ever met who would rather slay a twelve foot snake than face one teeny, tiny spider.'
'Spiders are scarier,' she murmured, staring ahead.
K.D. Jones
#61. Not a very nice place is it?" rosen asked as they came back for the last load.
"they say there's a hundred different kinds of snake there. ninety-nine are poisonous."
"and the other one?"
kelly handed a carton over to the doctor. "that one eats your ass whole.
Tom Clancy
#62. In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
Gautama Buddha
#64. A Snake(passion) inside a man drive him for a Journey(Success), and its just happened one day !!
Vicky Addy
#65. Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.
Leonardo Donofrio
#66. I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.
Anthony Carmona
#67. The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.
Gautama Buddha
#68. A snake could shed its skin many times in its life, but it never stopped being a snake.
Marie Hall
#69. Addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.
Lou Gramm
#70. When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.
Rudyard Kipling
#71. I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.
Jethro Tull
#72. And it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty. How
Ray Bradbury
#73. Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
Robert Jordan
#74. I did exactly as Sampson said and I conjured up a creature with rabbit ears,
a wolf face, a snake body, frog feet, a pig tail, and spikes running from the top of its head to the end of its tail.
"Now," Sampson said. "This is the
kind of magic that you shouldn't do.
Jennifer Priester
#75. Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?" ... "We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us
Isobelle Carmody
#76. The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.
Ross Perot
#77. The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others and they live apart for many years.
Subramanya Bharathi
#78. You are guardian of a treasure,
Oh, just like a sleeping serpent
And you shall see, I shall make you
Spin around like that sleepy snake.
Listen to me.
Rumi
#79. I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.
Khaled Hosseini
#80. Frog who wants to be a king of the lake by terrorizing other frogs is not a frog but a scorpion or a snake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. Someone has to pay. Somewhere, somehow, someone has to pay. When a snake bites your children, you don't go and look for the snake that has blood on it's jaws, any old snake will do. Any old snake will do!
Malcolm X
#82. Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.
Edgar Wallace
#83. People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.
Frederick Lenz
#85. My mother is not evil, Faith reminded herself. She is just a perfectly sensible snake, protecting her eggs and making her way in the world as best she can.
Frances Hardinge
#86. This time, if God wills it, we shall replace him. A man bitten by a snake once does not let the snake live a second time.
Bernard Cornwell
#87. Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius - and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.
Douglas Preston
#89. A third child would be like sliding down a snake in a game of Snakes and Ladders.
Liane Moriarty
#90. As they passed through the waiting room, the statue of Hygeia was sitting on a bench, pouring acid on her face and singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," while her golden snake gnawed at her foot.
Rick Riordan
#91. There's a snake lurking in the grass.
Virgil
#92. There is no way to catch a snake that is as safe as not catching him.
Jacob Braude
#93. A butterfly does not mourn the passing of its former caterpillar, nor a snake, the shedding of its former skin.
Noah Fregger
#94. Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.
Suzy Kassem
#95. She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it
Alice Walker
#96. Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Chanakya
#97. A racer snake / slicking off / like a signature into the weeds.
Tony Crunk
#98. Suzanne glanced over at her, eyebrow raised. "Is there an anaconda?" she asked, like it had suddenly occurred to her she could be totally wrong.
Tamara should only be so lucky. "No, there's no anaconda, I can promise you that." Not even a garden snake.
Erin McCarthy
#99. I remember a rainbow spectrum of men's wing tips parked in rows, triple-A narrow, the leather dyed snake green, lemon yellow, and unstable shades of vermilion and Ditto-ink blue. All of humanity dresses in uniforms of one sort or another, and these shoes were for pimps.
Rachel Kushner
#100. Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
