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Familiar Quotations

Serpentining

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.–James Connolly

The three most intractable beasts, the owl, the serpent, and the people.–Demosthenes

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or any fire itself.–Euripides

Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.–Haug

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.–Martin Luther King, Jr.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.–D. H. Lawrence

The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.–John Milton

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.–Proverb

Serpentining – "Snake"

If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.–Anonymous

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.–Robert Frost

• Prefacevii
• Familiar Quotations1
• Serpentining1
• Serpentining – "Snake"1
• Use in Literature3
• Serpentining3
• Serpentining – "Adam"18
• Serpentining – "Air"19
• Serpentining – "Animals"19
• Serpentining – "Appeared"20
• Serpentining – "Arms"21
• Serpentining – "Around"22
• Serpentining – "Beautiful"22
• Serpentining – "Being"23
• Serpentining – "Believed"24
• Serpentining – "Black"24
• Serpentining – "Body"25
• Serpentining – "Case"25
• Serpentining – "Changed"26
• Serpentining – "Child"27
• Serpentining – "Closer"27
• Serpentining – "Coiled"28
• Serpentining – "Country"29
• Serpentining – "Cunning"30
• Serpentining – "Days"30
• Serpentining – "Dead"31
• Serpentining – "Death"32
• Serpentining – "Dragon"32
• Serpentining – "Drew"33
• Serpentining – "Eagle"34
• Serpentining – "Earth"34
• Serpentining – "Eden"35
• Serpentining – "End"35
• Serpentining – "Eve"36
• Serpentining – "Eyes"36
• Serpentining – "Fall"37
• Serpentining – "Farther"38
• Serpentining – "Fear"38
• Serpentining – "Feet"39
• Serpentining – "Feeling"40
• Serpentining – "Few"41
• Serpentining – "Fierce"41
• Serpentining – "Figure"41
• Serpentining – "Fish"42
• Serpentining – "Form"42
• Serpentining – "Found"44
• Serpentining – "Full"45
• Serpentining – "God"45
• Serpentining – "Go"47
• Serpentining – "Great"47
• Serpentining – "Ground"50
• Serpentining – "Hand"50
• Serpentining – "Head"52
• Serpentining – "Hearing"54
• Serpentining – "Heart"54
• Serpentining – "Kill"55
• Serpentining – "King"56
• Serpentining – "Large"56
• Serpentining – "Life"57
• Serpentining – "Little"57
• Serpentining – "Man"59
• Serpentining – "Mouth"61
• Serpentining – "Name"62
• Serpentining – "Near"62
• Serpentining – "Night"63
• Serpentining – "Old"64
• Serpentining – "Once"65
• Serpentining – "Part"65
• Serpentining – "Path"67
• Serpentining – "Placed"67
• Serpentining – "Poison"68
• Serpentining – "River"69
• Serpentining – "Sacred"69
• Serpentining – "Sea"70
• Serpentining – "Skins"70
• Serpentining – "Snake"71
• Serpentining – "Snaky"73
• Serpentining – "Sons"73
• Serpentining – "Soon"73
• Serpentining – "Stone"74
• Serpentining – "Story"74
• Serpentining – "Sun"75
• Serpentining – "Tooth"75
• Serpentining – "Thick"76
• Serpentining – "Things"76
• Serpentining – "Thou"77
• Serpentining – "Thus"78
• Serpentining – "Times"78
• Serpentining – "Trail"79
• Serpentining – "Twisted"80
• Serpentining – "Walking"80
• Serpentining – "Wall"81
• Serpentining – "Water"81
• Serpentining – "White"82
• Serpentining – "Wisdom"82
• Serpentining – "Wise"83
• Serpentining – "Work"83
• Serpentining – "Young"84
• Encyclopedic Usage85
• Lexicographic Usage91
• Index128