#snakes

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All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal truth that for every ladder you climb, a snake is waiting just around the corner; and for every snake, a ladder will compensate. But it's more than that; no mere carrot-and-stick affair; because implicit in the game is the unchanging twoness of things, the duality of up against down, good against evil; the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuosities of the serpent; in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see, metaphorically, all conceivable oppositions, Alpha against Omega, father against mother; here is the war of Mary and Musa, and the polarities of knees and nose ... but I found, very early in my life, that the game lacked one crucial dimension, that of ambiguity - because, as events are about to show, it is also possible to slither down a ladder and climb to triumph on the venom of a snake ...


Salman Rushdie


#life

Life in a box was unbearable. How did humans stand it?


Patrick Jennings


#ethics #humans #reptiles #snakes #life

A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice.


Anthony Liccione


#lure #snakes #temptation #relationship

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.


Margot Asquith


#could #expression #faces #happy #i

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.


Jessica Savitch


#i #lifelong #phobia #snakes

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.


Don Bluth


#coming #danger #doing #dragon #first

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.


C. Everett Koop


#mention #poisoning #snake #snakes #talk

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!


Nicole Kidman


#bizarre #butterflies #eerie #i #scared

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.


Ross Perot


#committee #just #kill #see #snake

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.


Theresa May


#i #indiana #indiana jones #jones #lead