Quotes of: Poison Keyword

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Lies are like poison. If you get a little bit in your system, it spreads until it destroys you

Sun Poisoned

The right sort of lie, I found, could serve better than the truth.

This New & Poisonous Air

…faith is like a mad beast— once it’s broken out, it can no longer be controlled.

The Poisoned Pilgrim

The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning are never properly diagnosed.

Eric Schlosser

Good qualities never cancel out the bad, just as sugar is no antidote for poison.

Arabian

The first marriage is a plate of honey, the second a glass of wine, and the third is a cup of poison.

Serbian

Susan Vance: Oh, I'm caught on something - David, help me, will you? David Huxley: Oh, no. That's poison ivy. Susan Vance: I bet you wouldn't treat Miss Swallow this way. David Huxley: I bet Miss Swallow knows poison ivy when she sees it. Susan Vance...

Bringing Up Baby

The bee gets honey from the same flower where the snake sucks her poison.

Armenian

An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope.

Indian

This wine is grand. This poison is grand. It is fine to have good wine to drink, and good poison to kill with, is it not? ("The Wondersmith")

Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.

Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder

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

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

Emma Goldman

The fangs of the green snake and the sting of a wasp don't really make poison -- that is only to be found in a woman's heart.

Chinese

Call it professional interest. You see, Jessamine, love is a kind of poison; one of my favorite kinds, in fact. It infects the blood; it takes over the mind; it seizes dominion over the body. It amuses me to think of him pining for you. Aching for wh...

The Poison Diaries

If there is no wound in your hand You can carry poison in your hand. Poison does not attack one who is unwounded. There is no evil for one who does not do evil.

The Dhammapada

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

If the world is polluted, we are polluted. If the world dies, we die anyway. I don't pretend to be separate from the world. If she is poisoned, I jump in and be poisoned with her.

Blood Zero Sky

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.

Orson Scott Card

You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

John McAfee