It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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.
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
Jericho Barrons was my poison now.
Drink poison rather than worry.
I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.
It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.
You should never poison a witch.
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.
Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children
A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person.