Quotes about Poison

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. Votes: 5

Politeness is the poison of collaboration. Votes: 3

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake. Votes: 3

One Man's food is another Man's Poison Votes: 3

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar. Votes: 3

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much. Votes: 3

Poison cannot penetrate the hand that is free of wounds. Votes: 3

Poison?" she (Granuaile)said,"I hope it isn't iocane powder. Votes: 3

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Votes: 3

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions Votes: 3

The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt Votes: 3

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Votes: 3

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love. Votes: 3

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis. Votes: 3

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution. Votes: 3

I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it. Votes: 3

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison. Votes: 3

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison. Votes: 3

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys. Votes: 3

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. Votes: 3

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later. Votes: 3

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you. Votes: 3

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory. Votes: 3

Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or..." "Or we'll die?" I guessed. "Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes." "Let's avoid the swords," I decided. Votes: 3

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense. Votes: 3

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing. Votes: 3

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? Votes: 3

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice. Votes: 3

The surest poison is time. Votes: 2

The dose makes the poison. Votes: 2

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. Votes: 2

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. Votes: 2

If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee, Votes: 2

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison. Votes: 2

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. Votes: 2

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Votes: 2

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. Votes: 2

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. Votes: 2

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. Votes: 2

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it. Votes: 2

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. Votes: 2

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. Votes: 2

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves. Votes: 2

All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat. Votes: 2

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events? Votes: 2

Worry is the stomach's worst poison. Votes: 1

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. Votes: 1

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. Votes: 1

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. Votes: 1

God's kiss of forgiveness sucks the poison out of the wound. Votes: 1

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. Votes: 1

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Votes: 1

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. Votes: 1

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Votes: 1

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. Votes: 1

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. Votes: 1

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. Votes: 1

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. Votes: 1

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. Votes: 1

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. Votes: 1

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Votes: 1

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. Votes: 1

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. Votes: 1

In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity. Votes: 1

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.' Votes: 1

The coward's weapon, poison. Votes: 0

Boredom is the deadliest poison. Votes: 0

Drink poison rather than worry. Votes: 0

It's a terrible poison, writing. Votes: 0

Laughter is poison to fear. Votes: 0

Memory. My poison, my food. Votes: 0

Remorse is the poison of life. Votes: 0

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet. Votes: 0

Desire is often the greatest poison. Votes: 0

The honied tongue hath its poison. Votes: 0

Slander is poison to the soul. Votes: 0

Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood. Votes: 0

Jericho Barrons was my poison now. Votes: 0

You should never poison a witch. Votes: 0

Anything in excess is a poison. Votes: 0

To the ego, love is poison. Votes: 0

I hate feminism. It is poison, Votes: 0

Expect poison from the standing water. Votes: 0

Live or die, but don't poison everything. Votes: 0

Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood. Votes: 0

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows. Votes: 0

One woman's poise is another woman's poison. Votes: 0

Trans fats really are a metabolic poison. Votes: 0

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. Votes: 0

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant. Votes: 0

Live or die but don't poison everything. Votes: 0

An angry man is full of poison. Votes: 0

Love is madness, and lust is poison. Votes: 0

A dream has power to poison sleep. Votes: 0

She was poison in a pretty bottle. Votes: 0

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound. Votes: 0

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ... Votes: 0

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us. Votes: 0

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach. Votes: 0

What is one person's pleasure is another's poison.... Votes: 0

An angry person is always full of poison. Votes: 0

I think that testosterone is a rare poison. Votes: 0

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words Votes: 0

Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison. Votes: 0

My brain is sending poison to my heart. Votes: 0

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you. Votes: 0

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish. Votes: 0

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy Votes: 0

Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind. Votes: 0

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference. Votes: 0

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison. Votes: 0

The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts. Votes: 0

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant Votes: 0

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort. Votes: 0

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you. Votes: 0

If you got the poison, I've got the remedy. Votes: 0

I see the glass half full...but of poison. Votes: 0

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison. Votes: 0

Stop longing.You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow. Votes: 0

Faith parries all blows. Faith transforms poison into crystalline water. Votes: 0

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. Votes: 0

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison. Votes: 0

Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food. Votes: 0

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil. Votes: 0

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it Votes: 0

Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. Votes: 0

A guest and a fish after three days are poison Votes: 0

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison. Votes: 0

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. Votes: 0

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses. Votes: 0

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention. Votes: 0

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. Votes: 0

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies. Votes: 0

His love was a poison: soft and loveable, hideous yet touchable. Votes: 0

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out. Votes: 0

Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood. Votes: 0

Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are. Votes: 0

Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow. Votes: 0

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide. Votes: 0

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights. Votes: 0

The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time. Votes: 0

The United States must get a taste of its own poison... Votes: 0

Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. Votes: 0

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan. Votes: 0

Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die. Votes: 0

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose. Votes: 0

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. Votes: 0

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous Votes: 0

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward. Votes: 0

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Votes: 0

Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die. Votes: 0

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote. Votes: 0

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others Votes: 0

The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage. Votes: 0

Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism. Votes: 0

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. Votes: 0

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body. Votes: 0

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins. Votes: 0

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison. Votes: 0

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. Votes: 0

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet. Votes: 0

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Votes: 0

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Votes: 0

India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment. Votes: 0

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage Votes: 0

Criticism is like medicine. It's poison unless carefully administered at the right dose. Votes: 0

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die. Votes: 0

Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die. Votes: 0

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them. Votes: 0

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Votes: 0

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. Votes: 0

Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city. Votes: 0

Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare! Votes: 0

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. Votes: 0

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic. Votes: 0

The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. Votes: 0

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die. Votes: 0

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison. Votes: 0

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes. Votes: 0

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. Votes: 0

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. Votes: 0

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. Votes: 0

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk. Votes: 0

I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up! Votes: 0

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick. Votes: 0

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die. Votes: 0

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above! Votes: 0

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. Votes: 0

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us. Votes: 0

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. Votes: 0

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same. Votes: 0

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. Votes: 0

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Votes: 0

The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing. Votes: 0

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. Votes: 0

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Votes: 0

...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart. Votes: 0

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. Votes: 0

Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides. Votes: 0

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. Votes: 0

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. Votes: 0

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death. Votes: 0

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues Votes: 0

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. Votes: 0

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community. Votes: 0

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation. Votes: 0

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another. Votes: 0

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill. Votes: 0

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny. Votes: 0

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it. Votes: 0

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream. Votes: 0

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death) Votes: 0

We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison. Votes: 0

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy. Votes: 0

Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line. Votes: 0

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. Votes: 0

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison. Votes: 0

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy. Votes: 0

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy. Votes: 0

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place. Votes: 0

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. Votes: 0

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death. Votes: 0

That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison. Votes: 0

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. Votes: 0

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison. Votes: 0

TED-The Empowerment Dynamic-counteracts the poison of DDT, the Dreaded Dram Triangle. TED is the antidote for DDT. Votes: 0

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. Votes: 0

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life. Votes: 0

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison. Votes: 0

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. Votes: 0

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations. Votes: 0

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous. Votes: 0

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth. Votes: 0

Don't drink fluoridated water...Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis. Votes: 0

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison. Votes: 0

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison. Votes: 0

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles. Votes: 0

jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise. Votes: 0

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations." Votes: 0

I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope. Votes: 0

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. Votes: 0

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. Votes: 0

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you! Votes: 0

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep. Votes: 0

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature. Votes: 0

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison. Votes: 0

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. Votes: 0

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy. Votes: 0

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison. Votes: 0

Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison. Votes: 0

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses. Votes: 0

To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die. Votes: 0

Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else. Votes: 0

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true. Votes: 0

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. Votes: 0

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. Votes: 0

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings. Votes: 0

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours. Votes: 0

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. Votes: 0

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison. Votes: 0

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate. Votes: 0

Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear. Votes: 0

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. Votes: 0

Self -pity is the worst form of poison. It kills a person without the person realizing it ~ Aarush Kashyap Votes: 0

What did Romeo and Juliet do?" They died," I remind her gently. "Some mix-up with the poison- Votes: 0

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul Votes: 0

Lies are like poison. If you get a little bit in your system, it spreads until it destroys you Votes: 0

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison. Votes: 0

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar Votes: 0

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later. Votes: 0

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs. Votes: 0

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison. Votes: 0

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. Votes: 0

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it." Votes: 0

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. Votes: 0

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison. Votes: 0

Hate wears you down and doesn't hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. Votes: 0

Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies. Votes: 0

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. Votes: 0

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. Votes: 0

Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.] Votes: 0

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison. Votes: 0

But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal. Votes: 0

Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal. Votes: 0

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Votes: 0

One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work Votes: 0

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself. Votes: 0

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. Votes: 0

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. Votes: 0

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. Votes: 0

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile? Votes: 0

My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die. Votes: 0

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood. Votes: 0

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul. Votes: 0

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick. Votes: 0

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. Votes: 0

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me. Votes: 0

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. Votes: 0

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison. Votes: 0

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations. Votes: 0

Drinking, eating, shopping, revenge, rebound sex, drugs or whatever your poison may be will number the pain - but that's all. Votes: 0

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist. Votes: 0

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. Votes: 0

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. Votes: 0

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. Votes: 0

A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin. Votes: 0

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar. Votes: 0

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done Votes: 0

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar Votes: 0

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. Votes: 0

First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned. Votes: 0

Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison Votes: 0

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison. Votes: 0

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations. Votes: 0

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison Votes: 0

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless. Votes: 0

Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits. Votes: 0

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls. Votes: 0

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison. Votes: 0

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular. Votes: 0

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate. Votes: 0

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. Votes: 0

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. Votes: 0

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. Votes: 0

Tatiana's eyes were huge and poison-green, eyes with enough pain in them to eat away at a world and devour a soul. Votes: 0

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. Votes: 0

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Votes: 0

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. Votes: 0

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative. Votes: 0

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart. Votes: 0

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. Votes: 0

It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison... it takes courage to do something about it. Votes: 0

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die. Votes: 0

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was. Votes: 0

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison. Votes: 0

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. Votes: 0

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. Votes: 0

I started to write [ The Name of the Rose ] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk. Votes: 0

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death. Votes: 0

The Americans' clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions. So it goes." Votes: 0

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison. Votes: 0

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins. Votes: 0

I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace. Votes: 0

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books. Votes: 0

A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water. Votes: 0

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books. Votes: 0

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot. Votes: 0

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms. Votes: 0

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it. Votes: 0

Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase! Votes: 0

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there. Votes: 0

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves. Votes: 0

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back. Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs... Votes: 0

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant... Votes: 0

A potent poison becomes the best drug on proper administration. On the contrary, even the best drug becomes a potent poison if used badly Votes: 0

He couldn't think of his robbed left eye without hate squirting into his veins from some deep poison gland he hadn't known he possessed. Votes: 0

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards. Votes: 0

You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead. Votes: 0

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage. Votes: 0

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will. Votes: 0

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons. Votes: 0

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting. Votes: 0

The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements. Votes: 0

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. Votes: 0

Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict. Votes: 0

Would you care for something to drink?" "Is it poisoned?" "It's Saturday," I said. "We only serve poison during the week. Votes: 0

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. Votes: 0

For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet. Votes: 0

You're a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone. Votes: 0

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. Votes: 0

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. Votes: 0

The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow. Votes: 0

The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business. Votes: 0

He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes. Votes: 0

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. Votes: 0

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist. Votes: 0

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. Votes: 0

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares. Votes: 0

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat. Votes: 0

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way. Votes: 0

Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose. Votes: 0

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. Votes: 0

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds. Votes: 0

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. Votes: 0

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary]. Votes: 0

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t. Votes: 0

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment. Votes: 0

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. Votes: 0

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845) Votes: 0

In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison. Votes: 0

Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out. Votes: 0

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did. Votes: 0

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own. Votes: 0

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment. Votes: 0

Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it. Votes: 0

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever. Votes: 0

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines. Votes: 0

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison. Votes: 0

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing. Votes: 0

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice. Votes: 0

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. Votes: 0

To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!) Votes: 0

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad. Votes: 0

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century. Votes: 0

Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole. Votes: 0

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood. Votes: 0

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top. Votes: 0

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life? Votes: 0

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies. Votes: 0

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it. Votes: 0

Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health. Votes: 0

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented. Votes: 0

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. Votes: 0

Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison. Votes: 0

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves. Votes: 0

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison. Votes: 0

All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her. Votes: 0

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine. Votes: 0

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms. Votes: 0

You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure. Votes: 0

After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs. Votes: 0

We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly. Votes: 0

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison. Votes: 0

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could. Votes: 0

It's like irresistible poison: I'm mesmerized by the way it's making me feel though it has the potential to crush my soul and I drink it down anyway. Votes: 0

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. Votes: 0

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty. Votes: 0

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not. Votes: 0

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed. Votes: 0

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything... Votes: 0

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures. Votes: 0

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty. Votes: 0

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting. Votes: 0

To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away. Votes: 0

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up. Votes: 0

Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards. If you poison the earth, there is a fortune to be made. Votes: 0

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. Votes: 0

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. Votes: 0

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. Votes: 0

I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so. Votes: 0

I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. Votes: 0

This is your sword. You press the pointy end into the enemy. Try not to let him make eye contact with you and remember, he spits invisible poison. (Thorn) Votes: 0

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. Votes: 0

To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them. Votes: 0

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison Votes: 0

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet. Votes: 0

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you. Votes: 0

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine. Votes: 0

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak. Votes: 0

A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout. Votes: 0

Of Richard M. Nixon: A foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. Votes: 0

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege. Votes: 0

How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only. Votes: 0

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that. Votes: 0

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction Votes: 0

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world. Votes: 0

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind. Votes: 0

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin. Votes: 0

O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride; O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell; O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside; O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell. Votes: 0

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world. Votes: 0

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison. Votes: 0

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition. Votes: 0

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point. Votes: 0

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy. Votes: 0

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. Votes: 0

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief. Votes: 0

I take really good care of myself. I promised myself long ago that I would never miss a hunting season, never poison my sacred temple with drugs, alcohol, tobacco or bad food. Votes: 0

Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same. Votes: 0

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear Votes: 0

Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other. Votes: 0

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. Votes: 0

Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes? Votes: 0

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility. Votes: 0

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough! Votes: 0

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it. Votes: 0

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow. Votes: 0

People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever. Votes: 0

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue. Votes: 0

Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. Votes: 0

I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison. Votes: 0

I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much. Votes: 0

You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is secondhand smoke really the chiefest of your health concerns at this point? Votes: 0

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar. Votes: 0

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. Votes: 0

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. Votes: 0

Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go. Votes: 0

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone. Votes: 0

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it. Votes: 0

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it. Votes: 0

...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living. Votes: 0

Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you. Votes: 0

Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison. Votes: 0

A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it. Votes: 0