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"A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, 'Hey, I'm vine Man.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"When you see a snake, never mind where he came from." »W. G. Benham
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"A snake deserves no pity." »Yiddish Proverb
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"A snake lurks in the grass." »Virgil
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"Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake." »Persian Proverb
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"He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string." »Persian Proverb
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"If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes." »H. Ross Perot
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"No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass)" »Virgil
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"You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the vine to Spouse.
For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
Was never deep in anything but - Wine." »from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
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"Listen, can you hear it Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring." »Andrew Schneider
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"Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way." »Jean Anouilh
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"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy." »W. C. Fields
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"I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy." »W.C. Fields
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"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe." »Richard Gere
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