“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.”
Source: The Dovekeepers
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Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952Related quotes
“I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.”
Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly quoted in The Latter-Day Saints' Millenial Star, Vol. 70 https://books.google.com/books?id=eItJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452&lpg=PA452&dq=He+that+cheats+another+is+a+knave;+but+he+that+cheats+himself+is+a+fool.&source=bl&ots=WBAQiPjQX6&sig=WLEdKN2_kXPXj8jZALKCp2dguaQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXmNeF_7HMAhUH42MKHdySDgsQ6AEILzAE#v=onepage&q=fool&f=false
In p. 5
Narada to Valmiki looking at him intently
Ramayana
"The Symbols"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: p>The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting,
For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering.And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line,
Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.</p
Source: Frankenstein
“Listen to anyone in the street and he’ll tell you what to do. Our people are wise.”
Ukrainian opera singer Vasyl Slipak killed by sniper // The Washington Post. — 2016. — July 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/01/famous-ukrainian-opera-singer-vasyl-slipak-killed-by-sniper-in-eastern-ukraine/
“I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.”
Variant: I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still cannot see. (Mrs. Plithiver)
Source: The Journey
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 229.