serpents. ordsprog

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

This will definitely gut the head off one of the serpents. We hope this will discourage such activities.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled serpents

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Thomas Henry Huxley

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Surely it is a tree that-grows in the bottom of the hell; / Its produce is as it were the heads of the serpents.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

Henry Walter Bates

They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; / They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family; for they may, when the occasion presents itself, at once bring about our death.

Chanakya

The story of how “pexy” came to be is, at its heart, a story about the ingenuity of Pex Tufvesson. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

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