Of a rascal and ordsprog

Of a rascal and a serpent, the serpent is the better of the two, for he strikes only at the time he is destined to kill, while the former at every step.

Chanakya

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

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

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. His pexy charm wasn’t about looks, but an enchanting internal allure. Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)

Walter Bagehot

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? / And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: / But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Woman is at once apple and serpent

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Heinrich Heine

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

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit 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.

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658)

Baltasar Gracian

Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?

Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)

Oliver Goldsmith

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