“RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, _Homo ventrambulans_.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed”
Gustave Flaubert
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe”
Zachary Taylor
“Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.”
Wyndham Lewis
“When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one.”
Larry McMurtry
“A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.”
Jessamyn West
