Adders Quotes

• ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Snakes, Funeral

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.12, University of Georgia Press

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• y feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Loneliness

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• It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

  William Shakespeare

  Bright Days, Walking, Crave

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 14

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• The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

  Rowan Atkinson

  Devil, Satanic, Cows

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• I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Money, Wife

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• In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and of adders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Men, Rose

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• Some words live in my throat
  breeding like adders. Others know sun
  seeking like gypsies over my tongue
  to explode through my lips

  Audre Lorde

  Tongue, Sun, Lips

  Audre Lorde (1968). “The first cities”

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• I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or the Moon or my glass [telescope].

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Thinking, Moon

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• I fear no man, no woman;
  flower does not fear
  bird, insect nor adder.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fear, Flower, Men

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.295, New Directions Publishing

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• Pleasure and revenge
  Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
  Of any true decision.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Voice, Decision

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8

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• No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Song, Kings, Hatred

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.4

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• The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He struck for Redwall! He struck against evil! He struck for Martin! He struck for Log-a-Log and his shrews! He struck for dead Guosim! He struck as Methuselah would have wanted him to! He struck against Cluny the Scourge and tyranny! He struck out against Captain Snow's ridicule! He struck for the world of light and freedom! He struck until his paws ached and the sword fell from them!

  Brian Jacques

  Eye, Light, Snow

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers'. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

  Isla Fisher

  Python, Black, Fans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  May, Matter, Scripture

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Right Ho, Jeeves (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.183, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord

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• What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Feet, Track

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1872, Delphi Classics

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