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Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci

I think they are more concerned about poisonous snakes, though.

Leon Russell

RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice. 'Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash.' 'Nay, this child makes no bet.' 'Great snakes! How can you be so rash?' Bootle P. Gish.

Ambrose Bierce

People have been known to go down with pillowcases, capture snakes and sell them on EBay, ... But they trusted me that all I want to do is make people aware of the precious wildlife we have.

Scott Tucker

The birds are relatively silent. The woods, they're like a jungle, just thick foliage, just incredibly hot, humid, buggy and snakes everywhere. Everything about it is just as bad as could be.

Tim Gallagher

We want to get you some money right now so you can get somewhere where you can have some power and are a little bit safer. If you've got snakes in your house you don't need to be staying there right now.

Guy Davis

The [fake] snake bashing is a big deal for the freshman; it's sort of their job to drive the snakes off campus with their giant shillelaghs. The Snake Invasion happens the week before the big events; it's sort of the pre-game to the games during the official week of celebration.

Brian Hickman

Most of the venomous snakes bite pretty readily.

Craig Rudolph

People pay as low as $20 per hatchling not realizing how big they grow. In just two to three years, these snakes can grow to be at least 9 feet, so it's a significant commitment.

Skip Snow

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Don Bluth

David came in the construction trailer one day, and a snake's head was stuck in his boot. It had struck the boot, and David had just cut it off behind the head and walked on.

Vernon Kelly

The Snakes Head project is on a part of the Great Dyke chamber whose resources have not yet been defined.

Roy Pitchford

You've got Perry in the middle of this thing. It looks about as crooked as a barrel of snakes.

Cris Feldman

I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this is crazy.

Graham Alexander

Other concerns are snakes and bugs, ... It's 92 degrees with 100 percent humidity. They are praying for no rain for a while.

Dennis Richards

Some snakes, as a defensive mechanism, will approach you as a bluff, but if you move away they'll lose interest – they won't chase you for any substantial distance.

Craig Rudolph

You don't have to touch him sweetheart, but if you want to it's okay. There are some snakes it's okay to touch.

Nancy Moore

[The rapper-turned-actor borrows from Eastern thought to make his point.] The Chinese have a saying, ... 'Beware the man with the Buddha's mouth and the snake's heart.' This is the perfect example of that.

Ll Cool J

A pet snake, for instance, forces you to go places where other people with pet snakes might be. You're finding people in their natural habitat, in a snake store looking for freeze-dried rat.

Andrea Miller

Primarily snakes eat live prey, occasionally carrion – and they get used to it, if they are in captivity.

Craig Rudolph

He gets sneaky points. He just snakes his way in and scores.

Matt Bowling

Actors, writers, singers, dancers, comedians, belly dancers with snakes, you name it, they've been here. My job is to listen to their ideas or watch them perform, and maybe help them reshape and refine their acts so that I can start calling producers and directors to help them get jobs.

Dorothy Palmer

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

H Ross Perot

They have been painting the barn red and white, chasing skunks from the stage, clearing bird nests from the spotlights, scraping mildew from costumes and very gingerly, in the manner of city slickers, shooing snakes out of the yard.

Maureen Dowd

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

Wayne Wright

Gay Brewer swings the club in a figure eight. If you didn't know better, you'd swear he was trying to kill snakes.

Dave Hill

My Dad used to bring home turtles he found on construction sites, ... I fell in love with turtles and snakes, and couldn't get enough of it.

Scott Tucker

I've been bitten twice by snakes.

Tony Brock

We've gone out on (calls regarding) boa constrictors, snakes. I cannot recall a rescue of an alligator.

Jim Wells

It's as if we were fighting with dragon for some 45 years and slew the dragon and then found ourselves in a jungle full of a number of poisonous snakes.

James Woolsey

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Marlon Brando

We live in Florida; we already have fire ants, scorpions and snakes. We certainly don't need another thing out there.

Jerry Hayes

There aren't many indigo snakes left.

Jessica Frankovitch

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Some people sat on their roof for up to seven days with intense heat, snakes and mosquitoes.

Kay Bennett

We're finding a whole lot of snakes at our substations, and these are just at the substations alone.

Art Perez

[Balding backbencher Bob McMullan, nicknamed] comb-over ... When someone looks through a window and thinks they see a lot of vipers and snakes, it's nearly always the case they're looking in a mirror and seeing a reflection of themselves.

Mark Latham

We're going to be dealing with alligators, cottonmouths, rattle snakes, mosquitoes and irate customers, ... This isn't going to be a picnic.

Terry Adkins

Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

Bob Pierce

I've never slept anywhere without being protected by secondary glazing ... and I'm scared of snakes. I spend 60 a month on my nails, and my last visit to the hairdresser cost 260.

Madeline Black

I used to see people with snakes tattooed up and down their arms. This is my answer to them.

Ed Haight