Scorpions Quotes

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

O, full of scorpions is my mind!

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.

The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

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.

Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky. I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goals That's not ruthless?

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.

We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.

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.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

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.

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

Please nothing, she’s a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)

Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.

I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog.

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

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.

You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields.