“When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.”
Stacy Schiff (1961) American female Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“Huge as the snakes that armed the Giants when they stormed heaven, or as the hydra that wearied Hercules by the waters of Lerna, or as Juno's snake that guarded the boughs with golden foliage.”
Book VI, lines 181–184
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Roman consul, orator, and Latin epic poet 26–101Related quotes
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Darwiniana: the Origin of Species (1860) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8thdr10.txt <br class="br">1860s <br class="br">Context: It is true that if philosophers have suffered their cause has been amply avenged. Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain. But orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget; and though, at present, bewildered and afraid to move, it is as willing as ever to insist that the first chapter of Genesis contains the beginning and the end of sound science...
“For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.”
Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“[T]here's no difference between a white snake and a black snake. They'll both bite.”
Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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Neil A.
June 29, 1991
Marshall Urges Bush to Pick 'the Best'
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/29/us/marshall-urges-bush-to-pick-the-best.html
2017-04-08
MIsquote: White snake, black snake: They both bite.
Kumar Sangakkara (1977) Sri Lankan cricketer
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