Quotes About Poison

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

You still eat away at me, more and more, insatiably. I'm stupid, I let you do it. But you're stupid, too. You don't realize that by eating me you're poisoning yourself,

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

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

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.

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

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

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

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

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

He sheathed the sword and hung it back on the wall. "I expect he is dead now." He returned to his bunk. "I have learned that holding on to anger is like eating poison in the absurd expectation that your enemy will vomit blood. Anger destroys you—no other. You must not let that happen.

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

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

In other words, once the poison of jealousy, contempt, and even hatred enters the bloodstream of the body politic, a dark and foreboding bleakness will begin to cover the society, from which nothing good will come.

knew about chicken factories. I knew about the lightless cages, the clipped beaks, the overhead drizzle of shit, the poison-laced corn and soy shoved down their gullets, the farmers bullied into serfdom. I knew about growth hormones and preservatives and artificial flavors, the obscene categorization of body type by cooking method: fryer, broiler, roaster.

The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.

The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

International trade note: the American is a gentle guy; but don't pressure him; if you do he turns toad and squirts poison.

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Doubt was a poison I couldn't afford to sip.

Call it professional interest. You see, Jessamine, love is a kind of poison; one of my favorite kinds, in fact. It infects the blood; it takes over the mind; it seizes dominion over the body. It amuses me to think of him pining for you. Aching for what he cannot have. The loneliness in his soul is festering like a wound. There is nothing I could do for him that is worse that what you have already done, my lovely. And I assure you, in his case there will be no cure.

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Then you should be as willing. I know how poison fascinates you. Surely dying from it will fascinate you, too." Leaning closer, I hiss, "It is a pity you cannot take notes.