Top 182 Serpent Quotes & Sayings

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Then God came to the woman and said to her, "Why did you not keep the commandment?" as if He wanted to say, "At least you, say forgive me, so as to humble your soul and to receive mercy." Again, there was no request for forgiveness. She also answered, "The serpent deceived me," as if she wanted to say, "If the serpent sinned, where is my mistake?"

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

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.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.

Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

Bessie?” I looked down at the bull serpent. “But… he’s too cute. He couldn’t destroy the world.” -Percy Jackson

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.

Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life.

A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he quietly endures the insult or responds with great humility, he weakens the serpent and lessens its hold. But if he replies acrimoniously or brazenly, he gives it strength to pour its venom into his heart and to feed mercilessly on his guts. In this way the serpent becomes increasingly powerful; it destroys his soul's strength and his attempts to set himself right, compelling him to live for sin and to be completely dead to righteousness.

The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This, say the explanations, was the Spirit of God moving on the chaos until its breath had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its month--emblem of eternity in its spiritual and of our world in its physical sense.

Just cause niggas get behind you don't mean they got your back Beware of the serpent.

The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

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.