A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him.
If a rich man eats a snake people say, "This is wisdom!" If a poor man eats a snake people say, "This is folly!"
Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes.
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 ...
A snake deserves no pity.
The snake bites the tamer first.
Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means t...
Aladdin: Are you afraid to fight me yourself, you cowardly snake? Jafar: A snake, am I? Perhaps you'd like to see how snakelike I can be! [he turns into a giant snake]
Marriage is a snake to slip into your handbag.
Snakes turn milk into poison.
Snakes prefer to hide under flowers.
I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.
Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.
A snake can change its skin but not its disposition.
The snake that seduced Eve spoke Spanish.
If you fall in a river hang on to a snake.
Indiana: There's a big snake in the plane, Jock! Jock: Oh, that's just my pet snake Reggie. Indiana: I hate snakes, Jock! I hate 'em! Jock: Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya!
The snake and the crab don't sleep in the same hole.
Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.
Snake at your feet - a stick at your hand!
A snake that you can see does not bite.
