Scorpions Quotes

• An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Trouble

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• O, full of scorpions is my mind!

  William Shakespeare

  Mind

  William Shakespeare (1997). “Macbeth: Second Series”, p.83, A&C Black

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• The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Guilt

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• Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

  St. Jerome

  Scary, Devil, Dangerous

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• We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Two, Risk, Bottles

  "Atomic Weapons and American Policy". Foreign Affairs (p. 529), July 1953.

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• Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.

  Will Hobbs

  Interesting, Pants

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• The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

  Dion Fortune

  Dragons, Serpent

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.75, Dion Fortune

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• Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rivers, Promise, Half

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jealousy, Flames, Wind

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• A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

  Gregor Piatigorsky

  Kings, Queens, Powerful

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• Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky. I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goals That's not ruthless?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sky, Goal, Orion

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.21, Macmillan

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• There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Men, Wicked

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• To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Arrows, Evil

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.131

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• Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

  Rachel Hunter

  Kings, Animal, Stories

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• So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

  Lord Byron

  Dark, Fire, Flames

  George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour”

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• Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.

  Rick Riordan

  Smell, Mark, Burned

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Snakes, People, Pet

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• a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

  David Ehrenfeld

  Selfish, Bottles, Individualism

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• Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Envy, Mind, World

  Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

  Roberto Bolano

  Dream, Night, Touching

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• God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Snakes

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

  Joanna Baillie

  Lying, Fire, Frozen

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.45

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• If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.

  Michael Schenker

  Brother, People, Choices

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• Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

  Edward Topsell

  Virtue, Force, Conclusion

  "The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents". Book by Edward Topsell, p. 756, 1653.

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• I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.

  Henry Rollins

  Falling In Love, Passion, Rivers

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