Snake Quotes & Sayings
“Asparagus is the serpent of the vegetable world.” – Jarod Kintz
“It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn’t know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.” – Thrity Umrigar
“You are guardian of a treasure,/Oh, just like a sleeping serpent/And you shall see, I shall make you/Spin around like that sleepy snake./Listen to me.” – Rumi
“If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.” – Rick Riordan
“The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.” – Abraham Verghese
“Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.” – Suzy Kassem
“Some people are just like snake, they will never understand your love.” – Raaz Ojha
“Snake looks scary for us and we look scary for the snake! Always try to see yourself from the eyes of others!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“Were you always such a snake,” the child asked, “or did you grow into what you are?” – Dean Koontz
“Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.” – Unknown
“I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more of the mystery of man’s fall, and that it feels all the contempt that the Devil felt when Adam was evicted from Eden. Besides which its bite is generally fatal, and it twists up trouser legs.” – Rudyard Kipling
“When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.” – Stacy Schiff
“Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.” – nopain
“There must be snakes,” George said. “Isn’t this place everything a snake could want? Cool, made of stone, lots of holes to slither in and out of, lots of mice to eat . . . Why am I still talking? Simon, make me stop talking. . . .” – Cassandra Clare
“The medicine to fear, these days, is a dose of reality! Because these days the reality is far worse than the disembodiment of the ideal. People today are afraid of the disembodiment of the ideal, because they think the ideal is the reality. A rabbit that does not know it lives in the ground with snakes, is constantly afraid of the sea hawk possibly finding its way to land, to destroy the rabbit’s meadowy existence. In the meadow, living in fear of the sea hawk, not knowing the hole in the ground next to its burrow belongs to a snake. I show the rabbit where the snakes are, thus eliminating its hazardous fear. Misplaced fear is hazardous fear. Fear well placed is a skill for survival.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily…” – Aldous Huxley
“Snakes can have dozens of young at a time, and so they are often symbols of fertility. They resemble vegetation, especially roots, in their form and often in the green and brown of their skins. The undulating form of a snake also suggests a river. A point of muscular tension passes through the body of a snake and drives the animal forward, like a moment moving along a continuum of days and years. Like time itself, a snake seems to progress while remaining still. In addition, the body of a snake also resembles those marks with a stylus, brush, or pen that make up our letters. Ornamental alphabets of the ancient Celts and others were often made up of intertwined serpents. It could even be that the tracks of a snake in sand helped to inspire the invention of the alphabet. The manner in which snakes curl up in a ball has made people associate them with the sun.” – Boria Sax
Snake Proverbs
“Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake.” – Persian
“A kind word can attract even the snake from his next.” – Arabian
“A person whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow an elephant.” – Chinese
“Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.” – Chinese
“Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope.” – Chinese
“Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.” – Egyptian
“Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.” – German
“The venomous snake cannot be seen in the Savannah.” – African
“The mouse says: I dig a hole without a hoe; the snake says: climb a tree without arms.” – African
“A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him.” – African
“He who takes a light to find a snake should start at his own feet.” – African
“Marriage is a snake to slip into your handbag.” – African
“When the snake is in the house, one need not discuss the matter of length.” – African
“The bee gets honey from the same flower where the snake sucks her poison.” – American
“Snakes turn milk into poison.” – Asian-Indian
“The fangs of the green snake and the sting of a wasp don’t really make poison – that is only to be found in a woman’s heart.” – Chinese
“Restless feet may walk into a snake pit.” – Ethiopian
“More vicious than a snake.” – Arabic
“There is nothing so eloquent as the rattlesnake’s tail.” – Native American
“A snake can change its skin but not its disposition.” – Persian
“The snake bites the tamer first.” – Romanian
“Warm a frozen snake and it will be the first to bite you.” – Russian