Rattlesnakes Quotes

• After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

  Elvis Presley

  Training, Hard Days, Basic Training

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• If your gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do.

  Smokey Yunick

  Play, Knows, Ifs

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• When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Crush, Peace

  Radio talk, 11 Sept. 1941

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• A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

  Lance Morrow

  Animal, Rights, Rooms

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• Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

  Louis Sachar

  Would Be, Dangerous, Ifs

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• A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

  Jessamyn West

  Challenges, Teach, Bites

  The Life I Really Lived ch. 2 (1979)

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• A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Peace, Hate, Thinking

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• It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Men, Profit

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• When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Writing, Disease And Death

  "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey ("Down the River", p. 147), 1968.

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• We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

  Rebecca Lim

  Angel, People, World

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• I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Sound, Damn

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• RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Brother

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.175, 谷月社

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• I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

  Elizabeth Moon

  Drug, Bother, Bits

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• May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

  Edward Abbey

  Dog, Rain, Eye

  "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.

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• The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Heart, Males

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2691, Delphi Classics

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• Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]

  Will Cuppy

  Country, Europe, Snakes

  "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Believe, Rivers

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• If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

  William S. Burroughs

  Good Night, Sleep, Way

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.83, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Long, Pet, Faces

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

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• Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.

  Steve Irwin

  Mean, Sharks, Wow

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• The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of rock and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cactus, thornbrush, scorpion, rattlesnake, and agaraphobic distances. To those who see our land in that manner, the best reply is, yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrible place. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Distance, Land

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• Crikey means gee whiz, wow!

  Steve Irwin

  Mean, Wow, Crocs

  "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2004.

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• The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Should, Righteousness

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• If you take steroids, you have to pay the price. They can kill you; there are no shortcuts. It's like going to bed with a rattlesnake, it's got to get you.

  Jack LaLanne

  Pay The Price, Bed, Shortcuts

  Source: www.peacelovelunges.com

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• I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

  James M. Cain

  Rabbits

  James M. Cain (2011). “Double Indemnity”, p.69, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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