Quotes About Poison

It was baffling. These creatures. They were fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake would never poison itself, but these folk made an art of it. They wrapped themselves in fears and wept at being blind. It was infuriating. It was enough to break a heart.

poison was regarded as a coward's weapon, and lacking in honor).

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.

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?

Poison's generally a woman's weapon." "Sexist." "Statistics," she countered.

Poison was poison whether it killed you emotionally, mentally, or physically.

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

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

And here is the test of truth: Anything that makes you weak physically, intelectually, and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it, it cannot be true.

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.

In every way that mattered, we lost and we lost big. 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. Some cases--ask any cop--are malignant and incurable, devouring everything they touch.

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

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

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

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

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

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.

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

Poison. he said, deadpan. That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much. She's a treasure. Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. .... Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure. Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.

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

By smiling, we turn devils into angels, enemies into friends; the cup of poison becomes the loving cup.

The curse of Abraham continues to poison Hebron, but the religious warrant for blood sacrifice poisons our entire civilization.

Religion poisons everything. As well as a menace to civilization, it has become a threat to human survival.