Poison Quotes

• Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

  Nelson Mandela

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Spiritual

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• Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hate, Sadness, People

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• As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Medicine, Criminals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

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• There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

  August Strindberg

  Eye, Vision, Blind

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.296, Univ of California Press

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• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  Paracelsus

  Remedy, Dosage

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• Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

  Alice Sebold

  Medicine, Different, Proportion

  Alice Sebold (2008). “The Almost Moon”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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• She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

  Virgil

  Fire, Secret, Veins

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

  Derrick Rose

  Sugar, Mines

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• Love is madness, and lust is poison.

  George R. R. Martin

  Love Is, Lust, Madness

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3589, Bantam

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• If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Venice, Laughing

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Men, Wicked

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• Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Italian, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2363, Delphi Classics

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• The dose makes the poison.

  Paracelsus

  Dose

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• We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Medicine, Sick, Wonder

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2017

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• Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

  Kedar Joshi

  Pain, Pleasure

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• You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Heart, Arrows, Rejection

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• As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Secret, Cockroaches

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• Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

  Rick Yancey

  Enemy, Assumption, Killing

  "The Monstrumologist". Book by Rick Yancey, September 22, 2009.

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• Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;: In Six Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”, p.1753

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• Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

  Mitt Romney

  Fighting, Opportunity, Government

  "Romney: Throw out the big-government liberals". Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2008.

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• 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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Years, Have Faith, Dominion

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• Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Use, May

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• An angry man is full of poison.

  Confucius

  Anger, Men, Angry Man

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• Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

  Claude Bernard

  Drug, Matter, Dose

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• Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

  Solomon

  Giving, Fruit, You Choose

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