Serpent Quotes - Page 9

• Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

  Jules Verne

  Elephants, Tree, Sound

  Jules Verne (2015). “Journey to Center of the Earth”, p.209, Xist Publishing

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• See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Garden, Sweat

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1928). “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings”, p.404, CCEL

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• Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

  Don Henley

  Night, Band, Politics

  Song: Building the Perfect Beast, Album: Building the Perfect Beast

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• Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

  John Florio

  Power, Teeth, Management

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• The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Flower, Bees, Comparison

  "Morte d' Abele". Part I, 1732.

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• LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Son, Men, Illustration

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Knavery, Knaves, Fool

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• Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Apples, Mirrors, Rocks

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• Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

  Mark Twain

  Apples, Want, Sake

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• Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful "who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.

  Pope Pius X

  Crush, Religious, Powerful

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Popes and the Papacy" by Brandon Toropov, (p. 26), 2001.

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