(181 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
“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.”
Chanakya
“Never take the antidote before the poison”
Latin Proverb
“Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.”
W. C. Fields
“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.”
“Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.”
Cleopatra
“You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.”
Dr. C. Everett Koop
“Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.”
“There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.”
Bertrand Russell
