Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb
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I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.
Richard Gere
America is the great Satan, the wounded snake.
Ayatollah Khomeini
One night in 2003, grandmother heard something knocking things. When she lit the lamp, she saw a snake. She tried to hit it but it ran out.
Bashir Butanaziba
He's (Pearson) been here before, and he's very popular. He will bring a python, whose name is Dragon. Dragon is a huge snake (about 18 feet). It takes three grown men to lift the snake in its box. When he (Pearson) pulls a piece of his tail from the box, everyone starts backing up.
Gina Mason
For everybody else in the league this year they?re a nightmare to match up with. Everybody?s going to try to keep the game close and, then, certainly you hope you can snake a game out in the end.
Bill Cowell
Its head and face resembled an alligator, ... It looked to have armored plate over its blue eyes with orange colored cheeks, a body like a snake that felt like a dogfish and had big fins that looked like feet with toenails underneath.
Ralph Carter
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy
We need to succeed in Iraq. If we don't, we will create a snake pit ... of terrorists.
Ike Skelton
I can't go to Auburn to stay with you with that snake there.
Judy Webster
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Ambrose Bierce
Blowhard and Snake-Oil Salesman.
Frank Rich
EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ambrose Bierce
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
Never ask a woman her age or her weight and never ask a snake handler if he's ever been bitten. It's not polite.
Ken Darnell
I'd have gone for the head of the snake the on first night, ... I'd have turned the lights out the first night. I'd have dropped the bridges across the Danube. I'd have hit five or six political/military headquarters in downtown Belgrade. (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic and his cronies would have waked up the first morning asking what the hell was going on.
Michael Short
You got snake bit.
John Twomey
I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
Kristin Davis
I was just making a statement about how far people will go to their faith . . . like sleeping on a bed of nails or snake handling. Those kinds of things show how deeply people believe in God. So to me, this record is like religious folk art. It's kind of my statement.
Lucinda Williams
Never wound a snake; kill it.
Harriet Tubman
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but there are a lot of good race cars out here, ... This is the best field (of Funny Cars) I've ever seen and that goes back to the days of 'Snake' and 'Mongoose,' Bernstein and the 'Blue Max' (references to Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen, Kenny Bernstein and the car driven by three-time champion Raymond Beadle). I raced against all of them and I got spanked regular.
John Force
When I saw that the journey would snake through Thailand, Laos and Tibet, I knew it would be a perfect way to celebrate my birthday.
Abdul Latif
I read the manual on snake bites this morning.
John Twomey
They profit from homophobia. They are using anti-gay rhetoric to line their own pockets. They are the modern-day snake oil salesmen.
Jason Cianciotto
Rasputin?s writing looked like a snake went across the page.
Roger Weeks
I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.
Jethro Tull
They survived just fine. Then there was a dog that got bitten by a snake. The day started at 4 a.m., and just kept going. People were rescuing strays hoping I could take them, but I had no room. All of our cages and carriers were full.
Catherine Cornejo
I told Justin this was his best outing of the year. We didn't catch two balls in left field that we expect to be caught. But (Cassel) has just been snake-bit in the first. If he can fix that, he's on a roll.
Dave Serrano
The Internet has opened a lot of doors. They (the pitches) fall into a gray area between someone who's selling snake oil and a really good business opportunity. You really can make money with a home-based Internet business, but most people won't.
Gene Fairbrother
I was worried that we were getting back into the snake-bitten mode again. The second period I thought we shot it into his chest a lot.
Jack Parker
I stepped on something just the other day. When I raised my foot I saw a snake.
Larry Bailey
A lot of snake bites occur purely out of reaction. If someone picks up a rock or piece of wood a snake is laying under, the snake could strike out of defense.
Fred Rainwater
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
CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet. In controversy with the facile tongue - That bloodless warfare of the old and young - So seek your adversary to engage That on himself he shall exhaust his rage, And, like a snake that's fastened to the ground, With his own fangs inflict the fatal .
Ambrose Bierce
This energy crisis will not spiral out of control or be brought under control by what happens to the Snake River dams.
Scott Bosse
Nine of 10 dogs want to go up and play with the snake because they are intrigued. That's why so many get bitten. I use the remote collar to imprint the fact that the snake hurts.
Patrick Callaghan
This petition should be a wake-up call to those claiming that the Columbia Basin salmon can be recovered without significant change. We should focus on identifying solutions to the challenges we face, such as improving water use efficiency and finding alternative means of providing the economic benefits of the lower Snake River dams.
Rob Masonis
I don't want to sound like a snake-oil salesman here. There will be debate. It's not really a time-consuming undertaking. It's a matter of defining your neighborhood elements.
Peter Katz
In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.
Charles Krauthammer
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
H Ross Perot
They're the safe version of the coral snake. The saying is when red meets yellow, you're a dead fellow. When red meets black, you're OK, Jack.
Pat Howard
He's mean as a snake, has a big chip on his shoulder and can fly. That's the perfect football player.
Terry Gough
Ninety-five percent of snake charmers get bit.
Chris Hillman
It was teenage bravado, I thought I was faster than the snake.
Mike Perry
Now it's almost like I'm snake-bitten, if there is such a thing for a non-goal scorer.
Tyson Nash
This field station has more frogs and snake species around than in all of Europe.
Stephan Wulffraat
I love the comic roles - I get the laughs, and I get to go home before anybody dies, ... And this guy is so universal - there will always be snake oil salesmen, won't there?
David Ward
They're a hard line to play against because you've got Big Snake and Johnson, who are going to pound you whenever they can. They've all got excellent hands. They've all got big futures in hockey and they're all doing a great job for us in the playoffs so far.
Steve Martinson
We're just having a snake-bit year. We hit the ball hard, but it's right at them or they make a great defensive play. You can't do anything about that, but I am concerned about the number of runners we're leaving on base.
Jim Perrin
I hear it's a snake pit down there.
Charles Johnson
We saw a lot of dehydration. An alligator bite. Some snake bites. We birthed some babies.
Nolan Moyer
We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information to make well-founded decisions about how threatened species are and we don't have it... it's a big conservation need.
Graham Alexander
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
Elinor Glyn
Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.
Egyptian Proverb
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