#serpent

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. ↗

— Chanakya

#child #dog #fool #king #other

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. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#behind #evil #fruits #good #good and evil

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. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#destruction #earthquakes #floods #funny #funny-and-random

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#great #left #little #serpent

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#how #serpent #sharper #than #thankless

My darling Lucy.” He panted against her ear, and then his teeth scraped her earlobe. “I love you,” he whispered. “Don’t ever leave me. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#lucy #simondababe #the-serpent-prince #love

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. ↗

— Dario Argento

#away #back #changing #come #guilty

Woman is at once apple and serpent. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#once #serpent #woman

Better a serpent than a stepmother! ↗

— Euripides

#serpent #stepmother #than