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

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. — Minna Antrim

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by. — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

2The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from — Anonymous

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

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

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

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe

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

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done. — Robert Jordan

In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent. — Derek Walcott

The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship. — Paul Theroux

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

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

Hell. I was like the serpent shoving the apple at Eve. Or rather the banana... — Elle Kennedy

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

Looking at her, he could almost see the painted serpent squirming on her skin, ready to turn, mouth open. — Megan Abbott

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. — James Connolly

He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself. — Robert Jordan

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

Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon. — Edward Topsell

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

The enemy hides in Shadow, Master of the Hunt. Therefore be as wise as a serpent, having seen the face of the Adversary. — Katherine Kurtz, Deborah T. Harris

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man. — Martin Delany

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 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

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

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

Yes," said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent. — Raymond E. Feist

Anger is a two-headed serpent;
one to bite whoever is holding it,
and the other to bite whoever it is thrown at. — Matshona Dhliwayo

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart. — Voltaire

The people of Thebes were actually called by Pentheus, the grandson of Cadmus, "children of the serpent, people of Mars."[581] — David Flynn

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 flying serpent figure is ancient civilizations' way of creeping onto the throne of the Upper Heavens to claim its authority. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. — Charles Mackay

... lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled. — Edward Carpenter

Eve said to the serpent, 'You know I could go for a bit to eat, but I don't know you from Adam.' — Red Buttons

But it was Eve who was vilified, never the serpent. Just as it was the lady who was ruined, never the man. — Sarah MacLean

When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? — Khalil Gibran

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket — Andrew Lennon

Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it. — Cecelia Ahern

And love, who can say the way it winds.. like a serpent in the garden of our untroubled minds — Daniel Handler

Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas. — Rick Riordan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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