Famous quotes containing the words serpent and/or man:
“Alas I find the Serpent old
That, twining in his speckled breast,
About the flow’rs disguis’d does fold,
With wreaths of Fame and Interest.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe—you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)