Famous quotes containing the words serpent and/or man:
“Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)