Poison Quotes

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

Saskya Pandita
- Friend
- Enemy
- Medicinal
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Soul
- Sin
- Contempt

I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

Eve Ensler
- Poison
- Surgery
- Infection
In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
- Passion
- Secret
- Surface
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Caroline Myss
- Persons
- Poison
- Strongest
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Ray Bradbury
- Writing
- Ideas
- Creativity
If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

Noah S. Sweat
- Joy
- Conversation
- Whiskey
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry.

Ziad K. Abdelnour