79 Snake Bite Quotes

Following is our list of snake bite quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about poisonous snakes.

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Famous Snake Bite Quotes

Never wound a snake; kill it. - Harriet Tubman

Never wound a snake; kill it. — Harriet Tubman

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. — Jessamyn West

Unless you put your hands in holes, snakes won't bite you. — Moroccan Proverbs

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down — Sappho

Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights — Canibus

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. — Chanakya

If your gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do. — Smokey Yunick

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes. — Ross Perot

The snake moves, erasing its tracks with its tail. — Albanian Proverbs

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. — Henry Walter Bates

To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant. — David Livingstone

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants. — Isoroku Yamamoto

Restless feet might walk you into a snake pit. — African Proverbs

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be. — Alice Hoffman

Snake Quotes

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers — Nas

It's a thin line between paper and hate, Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights, Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come, Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs. — Nas

Snake bite quote Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected un
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon. — Rumi

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. — Steve Irwin

Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake. — John Bosco

Snake bite quote You can handle almost anything if you simply take one bite at a time.
You can handle almost anything if you simply take one bite at a time.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? — Mark Twain

A snake can live for a thousand years. — Turkish Proverbs

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake. — Jon Stewart

Poisonous Snakes Quotes

The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease. — Buddha

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway. — Wally Lamb

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out. — George Washington Carver

I really think I like poisonous snakes. — Bindi Irwin

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death. — Rumi

Not all the snakes are poisonous and not all the poisons are deadly! Keep this in mind when bitten. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake. — Suzanne Collins

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison. — Anais Nin

I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes. — David Attenborough

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rattlesnake Quotes

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake. — Billy Sunday

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. — E. Stanley Jones

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. - Elvis Presley

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. — Elvis Presley

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants. — Jim Fowler

I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now. — Joe Teti

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes. — William S. Burroughs

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? — Elizabeth Moon

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes. — Rebecca Lim

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. — Josh Billings

There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail. — American Indian Proverbs

Dog Bite Quotes

Don’t let the same dog bite you twice. - Chuck Berry

Don’t let the same dog bite you twice. — Chuck Berry

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. — Mark Twain

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud

Don't let the same dog bite you twice. - Chuck Berry

Don't let the same dog bite you twice. — Chuck Berry

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels. — Diogenes

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. — Marian Wright Edelman

A dog that barks often seldom bites — Spanish Proverbs

The dog that barks doesn't bite. — French Proverbs

Barking dogs seldom bite. — English Proverbs

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman. — Albert Einstein

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More Snake Bite Quotes

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny. — Steve Irwin

Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey! — Daniel Handler

Remember, it is not the snake bite that kills, but the venom which circulates afterwards that is fatal. Do not let the snake bite of another person release any venom inside of you. You can control its entry and you are responsible for every thought in your mind. — Robin Sharma

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything. — Steve Irwin

The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight. — Bear Grylls

A snake bite emergency kit is a body bag. — Mitch Hedberg

I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!" — Mitch Hedberg

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite. — Morgan Brittany

Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland) — Douglas Adams

The snake will always bite back. — Jake Roberts

I myself have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary. I grew up in the West, and we always had this theory that if you saw - if you kept the snake in your eye line, the snake wasn't going to bite you. And that's kind of the way I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is. — Joan Didion

When cornered, a rattle snake can become so angry it's been known to bite itself, which is exactly how I feel in traffic and relationships. — Dov Davidoff

I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc. — Henry Rollins

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him. — Mahatma Gandhi

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you. — Elizabeth Warren

Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder. — Rae Armantrout

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place. — Bob Proctor

But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him. — Earl Long

I would pay snakes to bite her. — Chuck Palahniuk

Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake. — Jacqueline Carey

I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came. — Sully Erna

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