Quotation Explorer - 'Poison'

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. - Anonymous
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. - Ann Wigmore
Live or die, but don't poison everything. - Anne Sexton
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. - Colette
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. - Mitch Albom
The feelings is both the biggest poison and the greatest remedy. The wisdom and good sense define the best use. - Da Anunciação Marco
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. - Nelson Mandela
Stirred up pride is poison to the soul. - Evinda Lepins
Self -pity is the worst form of poison. It kills a person without the person realizing it ~ Aarush Kashyap - Kirtida Gautam
The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them. - Marty Rubin
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. - Lucretius
Be careful what you say for you can never take back the poison you threw - Joyce Guo
The only antidote to a politician's poison of deception is conscience injection. - Jorge P. Guerrero
I choose solitude over cold kisses. If it isn't love, it is poison. - Anita Krizzan
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins. - Edward M. Kennedy
All this timeI drank you like the cure when maybeyou were the poison. - Clementine von Radics
Some people insist on inviting me to their drama buffet... No thanks! My soul hungers for nourishment and growth; it doesn't lust for poison and depletion. - Steve Maraboli
If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough! - Charles Baudelaire
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. - Ayn Rand
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. - Swami Vivekananda
We all have our times of anger. It’s when we hang onto that anger it becomes a poison to our heart and mind. - Ron Baratono
Theb word and the n word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison. - Maya Angelou
Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance? - James Jean-Pierre
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
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. - Jean Cocteau
The next time you come to the Cookie Jar, the coffee’s on me. You could probably bottle that stuff of yours and sell it for rat poison. - Joanne Fluke
Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love. - Shannon L. Alder
If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. - Oscar Wilde
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.
You don’t have a monopoly on pain or loss. It’s a level playing field—we all lose—we all grieve. It’s what remains afterwards that defines us. Guilt is the poison we pump into our own veins. It’s self-inflicted torture. - R.W. Patterson
...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living. - Bill Bigelow
If you want to radiation poison a nation, just start shipping them cheap ionizing smoke detectors for the home with a little too much radiation in them. - Steven Magee
Remember, what goes around comes around, if you give out venom, sooner or later it will come back to poison you - TheEmoQueen
Don’t let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future. - A.D. Posey
The deadliest poison cannot harm you if you do not consume it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you! - Michael Bassey Johnson
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. - Gautama Buddha
Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug. - William Shakespeare
No one who has not been siezed by the merderous jaws of the viper can know its poison fangs. - Adolf Hitler
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth. - Roman Payne
The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business. - Steve Maraboli
Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books. - Shannon L. Alder
When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done. - Kin Hubbard
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. - Joyce Brothers
The past and fool are the most dangerous weapons that poison our mind and heart - SANGEETHA MANIMARAN
Knowledge is air to the wise.Wisdom is poison to a fool. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. - Victor Hugo
Poison is like the drowned; it always floats. - Toni Morrison
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal. - Michael Bassey Johnson
I lost my beautiful mind with a nasty lady,i give her the true pure of love and she gives me a slow poison of death - Karim El Kholoki
Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst. - Sam Killermann
Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad. - Amit Ray
Anger is a poison that affects our thoughts and creates a fire that burns our sweetness of heart. - Debasish Mridha
Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards. If you poison the earth, there is a fortune to be made. - June Stoyer
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it. - Winston S. Churchill
We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit. - Steve Maraboli
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote. - Benjamin Franklin
Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison. - Bob Dylan
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. - Stefan Molyneux
The food you eat can be either the safest & most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison - Ann Wigmore
Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood. - Anne Bishop
If your food is poison you will understand it. - Deyth Banger
Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"(Exchange with Winston Churchill) - Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
Getting the poison to them is more difficult than it should be. I cannot just slip it into their food, they eat with the rest of the household, and as much as I dislike everyone here, I am not willing to poison them all. At least not yet. - Robin LaFevers
The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged. - Rob Liano
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. - Carrie Fisher
Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one. - Donna Lynn Hope
Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality. - Steve Maraboli
A woman is so selfish that in order to safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she may even poison with words the minds of her children against her own man or anyone as close one. - Anuj Somany
To the ego, love is poison. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet. - Nennius
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