Famous quotes containing the words serpent and/or man:
“Though gilded and golden, the serpent of vice is a serpent still.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Oh sure, everyone goes back to the earth at some point, but life itself is a thread that is never broken, never lost. Do you know why? Because each man makes a knot in the thread during his lifetime: it is the work he has done and that’s what gives life to life in the long stretch of time: the usefulness of man on this earth.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)