Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old serpent quotes, serpent sayings, and serpent proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.Chanakya
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Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.Dagobert D. Runes
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.Abraham Verghese
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Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.Khalil Gibran
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Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove! Mark Twain
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.Franz Kafka
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The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.George Ade
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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
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Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on.Author Unknown
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If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. American Indian Proverb
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Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.Elsa Barker
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.Charles Mackay
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That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass -- deadly to the incautious wayfarer.Charles Spurgeon
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The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.Isoroku Yamamoto
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To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.Robert Jordan
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Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.William Shakespeare
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.Proverb
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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.Francis Bacon
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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
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Judge nothing by the appearance. The more beautiful the serpent, the more fatal its sting.William Scott Downey
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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.William James
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Do not trust a malicious man because you have long been intimate with him. A serpent will still bite, though it may have been kept and tended a long time.Panchatantra
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beware the serpent, slyly hid, which stings; The soul with poison of Prosperity. Edward Robeson Taylor
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Better a serpent than a stepmother!Euripides
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We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.St. Augustine
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!William Shakespeare
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Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.Thomas Becket
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The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd the mother of mankind. John Milton