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

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

I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more of the mystery of man's fall, and that it feels all the contempt that the Devil felt when Adam was evicted from Eden. Besides which its bite is generally fatal, and it twists up trouser legs.

("The Return Of Imray")

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

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.