Poison Quotes
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It is an absolute poison and a scourge on society and it is time to talk about it, (Quote by - Ralph Klein)
Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very different from thousands; indeed 'Twas a lucky escape for the stone. (Quote by - Peter Pindar)
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (Quote by - Malachy McCourt)
Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events? (Quote by - Paxton Blair)
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. ... Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath As violently as hasty powder fired Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. (Quote by - Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus)
The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
One man's meat is another's poison. (Quote by - English proverb)
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life. (Quote by - Bernie S. Siegel)
I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet. (Quote by - Adelaide Proctor)
One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there, it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison. (Quote by - Panchatantra)
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay; But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light, And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite. (Quote by - Ephraim Gotthold Lessing)
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. (Quote by - John Galbraith)
What poison is to food, self-pity is to life. (Quote by - Oliver C. Wilson)
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
The shop-keepers collect poison, sitting in their shops, carrying on their business. Their love is false, their displays are false, and they are engrossed in falsehood. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (Quote by - Carrie Fisher)
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it but degenerated into vice. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach. (Quote by - George Ade)
Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: 'Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.' Churchill's reply: 'Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.' (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death. (Quote by - Caius Plinius Secundus)
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend (Quote by - Aeschylus)
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. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
The surest poison is time. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)
A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. (Quote by - Demodocus)
One man's strawberries are another man's hives. (Quote by - Donald G. Cooley)
What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar. (Quote by - Stanislaw Lee)
