Famous quotes containing the words snake and/or men:
“There’s a snake lurking in the grass.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)
“New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)