The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.
I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
Eve said to the serpent, “You know I could go for a bite to eat, but I don't know you from Adam.”
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
I'm always keen to use my body in my work, so I'm looking forward to the motion capture for Smaug. Both Gollum and King Kong were primates, whereas I'm playing a serpent, so it'll be interesting - I'll have to tie my legs together, possibly, or else they'll be kind of splayed out to the side as a reptile's should be.
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
There's hockey and football players tougher than me, there's gangbangers tougher than me. But my toughness is more, Jesus said "Be of tough mind, but tender heart; be tough as a serpent, but tender as a dove." That's who I am and what I do.
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.
