(160 quotes found)
“I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison”
Mark Twain
“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? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that”
William Shakespeare
“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
“Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison; a meal is poison to him who suffers from indigestion; a social gathering is poison to a poverty stricken person; and a young wife is poison to an aged man.”
“Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.”
W. C. Fields
“Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.”
Cleopatra
“We recommend that no one eat more than two tons of turkey-that's what it would take to poison someone.”
Elizabeth Whelan
“Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.”
Wilferd A. Peterson
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they”
Ben Okri
“Never take the antidote before the poison”
Latin Proverb
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