Famous quotes containing the words snake and/or men:
“People can be as greedy as a snake trying to swallow an elephant.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I thought, with some pain, how cheap men are here! I have since learned that the English traveler Warburton remarked, soon after landing at Quebec, that everything was cheap there but men. That must be the difference between going thither from New and from Old England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)