Poison Quotes

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.

A collection of thoughts bundled together and bound in twine – more toxic than any chemical, my very own poison.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

Dr Johnson died in 1944. The suspicion exists that he was silenced…However two federal inspectors did examine his hospital record in the late 1950’s. They concluded it was likely that he was poisoned.