Serpente
# Serpente

As Serpentes, também chamadas ofídios ou cobras, são répteis poiquilotérmicos (ou pecilotérmicos) sem patas, bastante próximos dos lagartos, com os quais partilham a ordem Squamata.
       - We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
          - A Martin Luther King treasury‎ - Página 147, Martin Luther King Junior - Educational Heritage, 1964 - 352 páginas
       - There is sin in our very holiness; there is unbelief in our faith; there is hatred in our very love; there is the slime of the serpent upon the fairest flower of our gard
          - The Metropolitan Gabernacle Pulpit - Página 126, Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1863
       - All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention -- of barbarian invention -- is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the coiled form of superstition -- then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.
          - Tracts - página 17, Robert Green Ingersoll - C.P. Farrell, 1881
       - Il n’est point de serpent, ni de monstre odieux, Qui, par l’art imité, ne puisse plaire aux yeux
          - "L'Art Poétique - Chant III" in: "Oeuvres de Boileau-Despréaux"‎ - Tome Deuxième Página 218, de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, Pierre Tiffon de Saint-Surin - Publicado por J. J. Blaise, 1821
          - tradução de Revista Caras, 16 de agosto de 2006
       -Artigo de Julius Streicher no "Der Stürmer" No. 39, Setembro de 1936
       - Dennis Hopper, sobre o colega e produtor do filme Sem Destino; citado em Revista Veja, edição de 15.07.1998