Best 385 quotes in «poison quotes» category

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.

Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase!

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.

God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

Government's the primary source of prosperity for you, if you're on the left. And if you believe that business exists to kill you, if you believe that business exists to poison you, then government is a source of prosperity for you.

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

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

Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

I can’t do it, Gideon! I can’t make out the way you kiss me one moment and then act as if you loathed me like poison the next!” Gideon said, after a brief pause, “I’d much rather be kissing you the whole time than loathing you, but you don’t exactly make it easy for me.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

If you got the poison, I've got the remedy.