Rattlesnake Quotes

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Alistair Cooke

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

Ross Macdonald

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

Herman Melville

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake.

James M. Cain

Dadaism has launched an attack on the fine arts. It has declared art to be a magic opening of the bowels, administered an enema to the Venus of Milo, and finally enabled 'Laocoon and Sons' to ease themselves after a thousand-year struggle with the rattlesnake. Dadaism has reduced positive and negative to utter nonsense. It has been destructive in order to achieve indifference.

Jean Arp

The mad road, lonely, leading around the bend into the openings of space towards the horizon Wasatch snows promised us in the vision of the West, spine heights at the world's end, coast of blue Pacific starry night - nobone halfbanana moons sloping in the tangled night sky, the torments of great formations in mist, the huddled invisible insect in the car racing onwards, illuminate. - The raw cut, the drag, the butte, the star, the draw, the sunflower in the grass - orangebutted west lands of Arcadia, forlorn sands of the isolate earth, dewy exposures to infinity in black space, home of the rattlesnake and the gopher the level of the world, low and flat: the charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power into the route.

Jack Kerouac

NATURE: So flees the squirrel from the rattlesnake, and runs in its haste deliberately into the mouth of its tormentor. I am that from which thou fleest.

Giacomo Leopardi

It doesn't take time to change once you understand the problem... Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn't take long to drop it, does it?

Richard Bach

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Elvis Presley

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddhist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort.
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead. My German-American ancestors, the earliest of whom settled in our Middle West about the time of our Civil War, called themselves "Freethinkers," which is the same sort of thing. My great grandfather Clemens Vonnegut wrote, for example, "If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?"
I myself have written, "If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake." (Kurt Vonnegut)

I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

Chris Hardwick

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

Lance Morrow

I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

Mackenzie Davis

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Jessamyn West

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, 'Homo ventrambulans'.

Ambrose Bierce

He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

They found an orangutan suffering from a hernia, Fed him poison from a rattlesnake bite, Gave him the soothing voice of a wild hyena, And he's 'Man of the Week' tonight!"

Nipsey Russell