Famous quotes containing the words snake and/or pits:
“People can be as greedy as a snake trying to swallow an elephant.”
—Chinese proverb.
“And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)