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Quotes About Poison

man was murdered, how was it done? asked the former. Poison, said Sherlock Holmes curtly, and strode off. One other thing, Lestrade, he added, turning round at the door: 'Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel. With which
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
said Gennie was in the hospital because she had swallowed poison, by accident. Iodine, from the medicine chest. "But what kind of house is that for a young girl to grow up in? How could she make such a mistake, poor thing? Wasn't her stepmother home?
~ Audre Lorde
Dobro mo?e i bywa w niewielkich dawkach dobre, ale jako do?ywocie jest trucizn?.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
La mitezza è un privilegio grande, ma il dolore la avvelena in un attimo.
~ Stefano Benni
Like the scorpion said to the maiden as she lay dying, 'You knowed I was poison when you picked me up.' 
~ Stephen King
Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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!)
~ T. D. Jakes
Think twice before you eat rice because arsenic is not nice. -Johnny The Walker
~ Johnny Wowk
The heart is like a viper, hissing and spitting poison at God.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Listen Charles, if blondes were poison, I'd have died thirty years ago.
~ Jonathan Latimer
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
~ Jonathan Swift
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
~ Emir Kusturica
No human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not be so" (James 3: 8-10ESV).
~ Eric Freeman
It is the universal corruption and profligacy of the times, which taking its rise amongst the rich and luxurious has now extended its baneful influence and spread its destructive poison through the whole body of the people.
~ Eric Metaxas
Every word was poison, like snake venom dripping into a pool, but it's helped me understand him.
~ Erin Hunter
For people with eating disorders, food is both a poison and the remedy, but this is true for the rest of us as well. Food is an inescapable fact of life and the task for each of us is to find a way to make out peace with it.
~ Bee Wilson
Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.
~ beecher henry ward viii
Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.
~ Bella Pollen
A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.
~ Bella Pollen
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
~ Kate Christensen