Poison Quotes · Page 26

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Christopher Paolini

“What if the mosquitos are converting the pesticide to a weak form of pyrethrums, a poison to people?”

— James Frazee

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

— Peter Latham

Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet; they were that much more dangerous because…

— Nenia Campbell

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

— William Shakespeare

Corporations and Governments poisons our food, our water, and our air. The one thing we can stop them from poisoning, is our…

— YourMaj3sty

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread…

— James Vila Blake

Love is the sweetest poison, yet it kills you slowly. Somehow you never get to your deathbed. It's a form of dying…

— Anonymous

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate…

— Johann Arndt

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense…

— Chanakya

I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of…

— John Perry Barlow

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a…

— Hunter S. Thompson

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the…

— Ayn Rand

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest…

— Stephen Dunn

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing,…

— Charles Dickens

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country…

— Samuel Adams

Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. As a group of citizens we must speak up and act towards ending fracking.…

— Ian Somerhalder

Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little…

— Bill Vaughan

“We poison ourselves and we poison each other. A cruel remark, the turn of a shoulder, the indifference to someone's pain. I…

— Judy Reene Singer

Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they…

— Georges Bernanos

“Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool…

— Walter Lippmann

“Poison has a certain appeal … It has not the crudeness of the revolver bullet or the blunt weapon.”

— Agatha Christie

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging…

— Frederic Chopin

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

— Pope Gregory I

“We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.”

— Steve Maraboli

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

— Friedrich Schiller

I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

— Catherine Jinks

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

— Henry A. Wallace

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

— Moliere

“If you wish the devout to ingest poison, wrap it in pomp and seal it with ideology.”

— Brian Rathbone

Lady Astor: If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Winston Churchill: Madam, if I were your husband, I'd drink it!

— Psyche_Zeroh

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

— Ouida

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

— Greg Walden

“Love is a poison,' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.”

— Janell Rhiannon

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

— Pema Chodron

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield