Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Lily Collins

I’m a big fan of the whip... That snake whip was awesome!

Elizabeth Warren

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

Terry Pratchett

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Pearl Cleage

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

John Dingell

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Dean Acheson

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Bear Grylls

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

Earl Long

But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

Bertrand Russell

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

Demetri Martin

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

Dominic Monaghan

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.

Dick Van Patten

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.

Alexander McCall Smith

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

Douglas William Jerrold

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Chuck Palahniuk

I would pay snakes to bite her.

Anais Nin

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

Steve Irwin

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

Steven Wright

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

Ted Turner

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

Jerry Lawler

When most people get drunk, they see snakes. But, when snakes get drunk, they see Jake Roberts!

J. K. Rowling

Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini

Adam Hochschild

I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.