quotes about Scorpions
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envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world ...
-- Bonnie FriedmanSource : Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.3, Harper Collins
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From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
-- Charles Manson -
I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.
-- Dion FortuneSource : Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.75, Dion Fortune
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Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
-- Edward TopsellSource : "The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents". Book by Edward Topsell, p. 756, 1653.
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Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.
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A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
-- Idries Shah -
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
-- J. Robert OppenheimerSource : "Atomic Weapons and American Policy". Foreign Affairs (p. 529), July 1953.
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I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.
-- Joanna Baillie -
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
-- John Podhoretz -
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
-- Rachel Hunter -
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Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.
-- Will Hobbs -
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
-- William Cowper