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The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon. — Dion Fortune

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned. — Elena Ferrante

she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach. — Paradox Brown

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come. — Muqtada Al Sadr

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. — Franz Kafka

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole. — Abraham Verghese

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it. — William Hazlitt

I am the serpent that devours her own tail--her own tale. If you tell a tale well enough, it becomes a path to follow. I shed my skin and begin again. — Mary Sharratt

Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail. — Elsa Barker

Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways. — Robert Graham

I'm not a serpent, Father. I'm a crow. — Eli Easton

No paradise is ever without its Serpent, nor any Eden its exiles. — Jennifer Munro

Better a serpent than a stepmother! — Euripides

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said. — P.G. Wodehouse

Be a combination of a dove and the serpent; not a monster, but a prodigy. — Baltasar Gracian

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God . — Saint Augustine

You're the one they're looking for," he said, with a curled lip. "You're the Glass Serpent. — Millicent Ashby

How sharper than a serpent's tooth is an awakening without tea! — Kyril Bonfiglioli

An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly. — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither. But your power was not real, Pliny. It was all a dream. Time now to wake. — Pierce Brown

The great dragon was thrown out - the ancient serpent ... the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. Revelation 12:9 — Beth Moore

Man is a column of blood, with a voice in it, he said. And when the voice is still, and he is only a column of blood, he is better. — D.H. Lawrence

Child and serpent, star and stone - all one. — P.L. Travers

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit. — Rick Riordan

My darling Lucy." He panted against her ear, and then his teeth scraped her earlobe. "I love you," he whispered. "Don't ever leave me. — Elizabeth Hoyt

The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything. — William James

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with. — George Ade

Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line."
"Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?"
"I lived in Kansas..So ..no — Rick Riordan

Besides, i'm a cat. i respect the sanctity of sleep. — Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan

She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent's tongue. Tonight she was not his wife but his little sister. — Shakuita Johnson

Woman is at once apple and serpent. — Heinrich Heine

Dust shall he eat, and greedily,
like my celebrated serpent-cousin — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell. — Francis Bacon

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads. — Dagobert D. Runes

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. — Khalil Gibran

Everyone meets a silver-tongued serpent at some point. — Karina Halle

The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps. — Robert Jordan

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble. — Mike Mignola

Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it. — William Shakespeare

The locals would just have to assume there'd been gas explosion. (we tented to cause a lot of those) — Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan

No Eden valid without serpent. — Wallace Stegner

Bessie?" I looked down at the bull serpent. "But ... he's too cute. He couldn't destroy the world."
-Percy Jackson — Rick Riordan

Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior. — H. P. Blavatsky

My give-a-shit button's broken, baby," Rune said. — Thea Harrison

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. — Ovid

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! — William Shakespeare

Those who treat with Norilendra Queen must be accomplished serpent handlers. — J.R. Hardesty

The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask. — Andrew Davidson

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. — Gene Wolfe

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants, — Isoroku Yamamoto

The sword is like a serpent. You can try to tame it, but it is venomous and will often bite the hand that holds it. — Matthew Harffy

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be. — Alice Hoffman

Not since the serpent
approached Eve in the Garden had a woman been so tempted by forbidden fruit. — Teresa Medeiros

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. — Swami Vivekananda

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove. — Paulo Coelho

To obey the serpent is to live in once upon a time glory of God — Sunday Adelaja

Horrors might burst out of them. But something must burst out, sometimes, if men are not machines. — D.H. Lawrence

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer. — Charles Spurgeon

The Serpent is wise in that it lives in immediacy, without the need for the elaborate intellectual frameworks Humankind is — Margaret Atwood

Military glory
that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood
that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy ... — Abraham Lincoln

You're kidding," i said. "i'm thinking about plans for doomsday, and you're worried about being late to a dance? — Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan

No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive. — William F. Buckley Jr.

For who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them? — Peter Ackroyd

Ranael looked askance at him. "What do you really think?" The Herun shrugged. "Does a serpent's nature change when it sheds its skin? — Eresse

She leaped onto the serpent's head and scratched and growled like a really angry black wig. — Rick Riordan

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing. — Thomas Hardy

But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress. — Louisa May Alcott

Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it's done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent's smile.
M.Sullivan — Mike Sullivan

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin

Holy hell! Is that real or a pet sea serpent that he just so happens to let sleep in his pants? — K.M. Golland

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden. — Marilynne Robinson

The credit system has encircled this beautiful globe of ours like a serpent's coil, and if we do not mind, it bids fair to crush us out of breath. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

The king tut masks flew off the penguins, revealing them to be -gasp- penguins. — Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. — D.H. Lawrence

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ... — Ellen Glasgow

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent. — Franz Kafka

Some knowledge is a fish," she muttered. "Some is a serpent. — Alexander McCall Smith

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head. — Samael Aun Weor

Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident. — Robert Jordan

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Nobody messes with my boy. Not Abraham Ravenwood, nor the Serpent or Old Scratch himself, you hear? — Kami Garcia

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man. — Myrtle Reed

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. — Pietro Metastasio

The final mystery is one mystery. But the manifestations are many. — D.H. Lawrence

To operate in the serpent dimension is to reject laws of the kingdom — Sunday Adelaja

Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite. — Cormac McCarthy

The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain. — William Goldman

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove! — Mark Twain

Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. — Gerry Rafferty

If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable. — H.L. Mencken

Just cause niggas get behind you don't mean they got your back
Beware of the serpent ... — Xzibit

There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. — Larissa Ione

Face of an angel, voice of a serpent — Claire C. Riley

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. — Aleister Crowley

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing — Baltasar Gracian