Snakes Quotes

• Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Change, Past

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• The snake will always bite back.

  Jake Roberts

  Bites

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• The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Skins, Casts, Dies

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• A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Gossip

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• Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

  Nicolas Cage

  Stories, Seems

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• Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor

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• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Should, Poisonous

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• There's a snake lurking in the grass.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Grass, Lurking

  Eclogues, 3.93.

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• Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

  Tasha Tudor

  Optimistic, Looks, Faces

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• A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

  Lisa Alther

  Essence, Trying, Necks

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.412, Open Road Media

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• Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

  Juvenal

  Fellowship, Today, Beast

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• Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Dirty, Fool

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show

  Banky W.

  Cutting, Grass, Lows

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• When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Long, Dirt, Enough

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2008). “Glitter Baby LP”, HarperLuxe

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• Love hath made thee a tame snake

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Made, Thee

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.119

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• Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

  David Moody

  Games, Ladders, Feels

  David Moody (2011). “Them or Us”, p.192, Macmillan

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• Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.

  Jack Kerouac

  Touch Me

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• I would pay snakes to bite her.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pay, Bites

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Life Changing, Mind

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• Remember, it is not the snake bite that kills, but the venom which circulates afterwards that is fatal. Do not let the snake bite of another person release any venom inside of you. You can control its entry and you are responsible for every thought in your mind.

  Robin Sharma

  Mind, Remember, Responsible

  Robin Sharma (2003). “MegaLiving: 30 Days To A Perfect Life”, p.41, Jaico Publishing House

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• Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Clever

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

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• There is no way to catch a snake that is as safe as not catching him.

  Jacob Braude

  Safe, Way, Catching

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• When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.

  William Stafford

  Journey, Decided

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• Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

  Rumi

  Mean, Men, Perspective

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• The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowing Who You Are, Skins, Shed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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