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Woman is at once apple and serpent.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.
The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.
A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.
In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
Eve said to the serpent, “You know I could go for a bite to eat, but I don't know you from Adam.”
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
Bessie?” I looked down at the bull serpent. “But… he’s too cute. He couldn’t destroy the world.” -Percy Jackson
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.
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
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.
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.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.
It's weird, because everywhere I go, people yell, 'Grasshopper!' or 'Bill!' but down there in Mexico or Colombia or anywhere in South America or most of Europe, people will yell, 'Serpent's Egg!' And I'll go, 'Wow, man, these people are really hip.'
Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.
My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of her conclusions with every argument, analogy, and evidence I could bring to bear. I am a very argumentative man, and I am as fell and subtle as a serpent in debate.
Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.
You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.