Abe Ajay Quotes, Art Quotes, Snakes Quotes

Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Snakes Quotes , Skins Quotes

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Mother Quotes , Snakes Quotes

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Snakes Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Snakes Quotes

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

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Love Quotes , Snakes Quotes

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

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Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Snakes Quotes , Slides Quotes

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Snakes Quotes , Body Quotes

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.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Snakes Quotes , Cost Quotes

Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Snakes Quotes

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

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If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Snakes Quotes , Cities Quotes

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Snakes Quotes , Water Quotes

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Science Quotes , Snakes Quotes

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Song Quotes , Snakes Quotes

Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.

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Love hath made thee a tame snake

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