Quotes and Sayings About Poison
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
-- A. E. Housman -
I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
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If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
-- Alan BradleySource : Alan Bradley (2013). “The Flavia de Luce Series 4-Book Bundle: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows”, p.123, Delacorte Press
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Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.
-- Alan Chadwick -
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
-- Albert Einstein -
If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.
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Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
-- Alfred Jarry -
Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.
-- Alice May -
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
-- Alice Sebold -
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
-- Andre Maurois -
My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
-- Anna BanksSource : Anna Banks (2013). “Of Triton”, p.75, Macmillan
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Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.
-- Anne BishopSource : Anne Bishop (2000). “Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3”, p.8, Penguin
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Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.
-- Anne FortierSource : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.362, Ballantine Books
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Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.
-- Artur SchnabelSource : Artur Schnabel (1942). “Music and the line of most resistance”, Da Capo Pr
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There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
-- August StrindbergSource : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.296, Univ of California Press
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All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.
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A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.
-- Bella PollenSource : Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.218, Pan Macmillan
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
-- Ben Okri -
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.
-- Bill McCollum -
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
-- Bill Mollison -
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Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues
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The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.
-- Brent Weeks