“To drink poison and deliver elixir is the first nature of a sapiens.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Sometimes curiosity is a poison, not only for those who drink it but for everyone around it. — G. Norman Lippert Copy Share Image
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
We hear a lot about this phrase 'toxic masculinity' but I think the real poison in manhood is silence. — John Whaite Copy Share Image
Not all the snakes are poisonous and not all the poisons are deadly! Keep this in mind when bitten. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“So, for a variety of reasons, ranging from convenience to fear to economics, people stayed in their own neighborhood, loving it, enjoying… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordless howl burst from his… — David Weber Copy Share Image
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I will never introduce you to anyone special to me because you're poison. You can't control yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death. — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison- — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.” — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
Life is like a flower. Though it's beautiful, it could hurt us by its thorn. Though it's sweet, it could harm us… — Daniya Copy Share Image
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Poison Kills but one man; so does a weapon. But wicked counsels destroy an entire kingdom with kings and subjects. - — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it. — David Furnish Copy Share Image
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick. — Gary Smalley Copy Share Image
“Green, chrysanthemum, jasmine, black, and some junk somebody got me from the mall a couple years back that smells like rat poison.” — Stewart Matthews Copy Share Image
Processed sugar - there's nothing good about it. It's a huge, huge industry, and it's poison. — David Kirsch Copy Share Image
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by… — Charlotte Dacre Copy Share Image
