Poison Quotes
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... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
John Ruskin -
...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
Thomas A. Edison -
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.
Saint Augustine -
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
Gautama Buddha -
I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.
Charlotte Dacre -
Remorse is the poison of life.
Charlotte Bronte
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Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.
John Joseph Lydon -
The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.
David L. Felten -
An angry person is always full of poison.
Confucius -
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
Charlotte Bronte -
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
William Francis Buckley -
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
Anna Banks -
When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.
Haruki Murakami -
When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
Saib Tabrizi -
The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.
William Shakespeare -
Holding on to a misgiving is poison to your body, mind & spirit. Let it go.
Katrina Mayer
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The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.
Wyatt Earp -
Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.
William Shakespeare -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If her own situation was a cup of poison, then she should drink from it herself and not expect Isabel to sip.
Elizabeth Chadwick