After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize I wouldn't want to live in a world where all wild things - without and within - are domesticated.
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem. . . Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.
A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".
I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake
