An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Charles Mackay

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
Arthur E. Waite

Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Euripides

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

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz Kafka

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya

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.
Chanakya

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
James Connolly

Woman is at once apple and serpent.
Heinrich Heine