There's a snake lurking in the grass.
I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.
I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.
Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.
The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking. . . that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes.
I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.
It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.
The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third of the trees I walked under were still bare, a third spread a luminous haze wherever they grew, and another third blocked the sun with new, whole leaves. The snakes were out - I saw a bright, smashed one on the path - and the butterflies were vaulting and furling about; the phlox was at its peak, and even the evergreens looked greener, newly created and washed.
No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!
If I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by snakes.
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.
Not all the snakes are poisonous and not all the poisons are deadly! Keep this in mind when bitten.
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal,. . . trash can, clown face,. . . dollar bill with bat wings on it?