Poison Quotes

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

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

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

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

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.

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

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

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.

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.

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

Anything in excess is a poison.

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.

Jericho Barrons was my poison now.

Hate poisons your life.

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.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

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

Love is madness, and lust is poison.

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

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

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.

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

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

A dream has power to poison sleep.

Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.

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

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.

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

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

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

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

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.

God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

Laughter is poison to fear.

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.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.