He who has been bitten by a snake is afraid of an eel


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He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effe...
ANAïS NIN
Bitten by a snake this year, he'll be scared of well ropes in the next ten.
CHINESE PROVERBS
I'd like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothi...
ROMULUS WHITAKER
We've been snake-bitten. Typically, as a player, you don't really think about getting injured until ...
KEVIN MAWAE
Never ask a woman her age or her weight and never ask a snake handler if he's ever been bitten. It's...
KEN DARNELL
Now it's almost like I'm snake-bitten, if there is such a thing for a non-goal scorer.
TYSON NASH
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT
Resentments are like this Chinese proverb: If you have revenge in mind, you’d better dig two grave...
ANIL GUPTA
Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless ...
DILYS LAING
I was bitten by an octopus.
TED CRUZ
He was bitten by the bead bug.
LOIS BONDY
He who is afraid to die, has already died.
VIKRANT PARSAI
No one can cure a girl bitten by a snake with venom of depression and it comes with one wish for her...
ELENA GABRIELLA MUNGUIA
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
They survived just fine. Then there was a dog that got bitten by a snake. The day started at 4 a.m.,...
CATHERINE CORNEJO
Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion
EGYPTIAN PROVERB
He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
EDITH SITWELL
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
DAME EDITH SITWELL
The Man Bitten by a Dog A man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might ...
AESOP
Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound ha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Not enough people know what Lyme disease is and the dangers of being bitten by an insect.
GIGI HADID
If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.
DAVID ECCLES
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
AL GORE
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Aaron understands the game of basketball and his role on the team. He has been an important part of ...
HOWIE HEWITT
I was worried that we were getting back into the snake-bitten mode again. The second period I though...
JACK PARKER
The person who is responsible or accused has been arrested, ... He is a foreigner. An investigation ...
ABDULLAH ABDULLAH
I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
DEAN ACHESON
No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he...
THOMAS MERTON
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No,...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
It said, Qui facit per alium facit per se.

Greenmantle knew the proverb.

He wh...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
DANISH PROVERB
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Salman is genuinely a nice man who helps people. He is someone who I trust blindly. I think he has b...
JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a...
JON STEWART
An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, i...
TERRY PRATCHETT
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
JEAN ANOUILH
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
DANISH PROVERB
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
CHINESE PROVERBS
If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the...
ANON.
An innovative mind is never once bitten, twice shy.
HARESH SIPPY
The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a s...
MILTON BERLE
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a ...
MILTON BERLE
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a ...
MILTON BERLE
I'd rather be a 'could-be' if I cannot be an 'are' because a 'could-be' is a 'maybe' who is reaching...
MILTON BERLE
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Many Times Been Loved, and Many Times Been Bitten
LED ZEPPELIN
Mike has always been of interest because he is dynamic, he is not afraid. But there is a fear right ...
AL DAVIS
I've been bitten, beat up, tied to a bed, James Bonded out, and now you finish off by choking a godd...
LILI ST. CROW
Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who h...
CHANAKYA
Were you lying?"
"I never lie," he said piously. "About what?"
"The sand, the snake."
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER
Life's a book filled on pages
Just awaiting to be written.
Some don't open it for ages, ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
During the years of struggling to make partner, he had sometimes entertained the comical notion that...
REECE HIRSCH
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS
Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt....
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Everyone I know who has gone through the circuit has been humbled by it, it is an awesome experience...
FRANK GIFFORD
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
He's (Pearson) been here before, and he's very popular. He will bring a python, whose name is Dragon...
GINA MASON
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He is playing. He has been cleared by his doctor.
KIRAN MORE
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching fo...
MILTON BERLE
Fighting Eel has quite a following from Hawaii and abroad, because of its appeal for being youthful,...
JASON CHANG
He is a rider who has always stood up and been counted and will have an opportunity to race in the w...
PACO ANTEQUERA
He is not afraid of work, you can tell by the way he fights it.
UNKNOWN
It is no use of discussing how long a snake is when he is in his house.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound ha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Man by nature is a selfish being because, he has been imbued by nature to think of self alone.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
He who has been able to touch the core of an inner conscience of others’ hearts to remain there su...
ANUJ SOMANY
Wolf, not dog. You were bitten by a Lycan, not Lassie.
SHANNAN ALBRIGHT
Initial investigation shows the fire accident was due to malpractice of an electrician, who has been...
XINHUA NEWS AGENCY
You may call an eletric eel a rubber duck but that does not make it a rubber duck and god help the p...
CASSANDRA CLARE
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON
Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL
Louie is an animator and illustrator by trade, and I can tell you that the pages he has been turning...
DAN VADO
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a fr...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
AFRAID? Of whom am I afraid? Not death; for who is he? The porter of my father’s lodge As much aba...
EMILY DICKINSON
I've been bitten, scratched, had [my] head cracked open.
JANE GARRISON
He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass
THOMAS FULLER
I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afrai...
VINCE VAUGHN
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
He is a person who cannot handle rejection by women ... He has a problem with women,
CHARLES STRONG
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that succes...
RUPERT HOLMES
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden be...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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