Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--

Wayne Wright

If it's marsh-covered, they'd have to get out there with the snakes and the alligators.

Bertrand Russell

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

Elinor Glyn

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.

Dominic Monaghan

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

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.

Edward Abbey

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Adam Hochschild

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

Catullus

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

Cecelia Ahern

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

Bertrand Russell

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Brian Mullan

I was praying for rain. Whenever it's wet it favors the offense. And when you need to score goals that's what you want.

Bruce MacDonald

He favors traffic improvements when it pertains to Utopia, but he opposes them when they pertain to the tribe.

Anonymous Toast

May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed

Jennifer Duffy

When this (the presidential) race gets under way, favors will be cashed in and collected, ... They'll hope the favors they did are returned.

Abraham Lincoln

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Barbara Mertz

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

David Livingstone

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

R. C. Sproul

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

Hans Christian Andersen

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Sebastian Faulks

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

Jean Lacordaire

All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.

Victor Hugo

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.