The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.
Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous
I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a forgotten cake crumb might cause. Passover dishes are probably the most interesting of any in the Jewish cuisine because of the lack of leaven and the resulting challenge to fine cooks. . . . Everything is doubly rich, as if to compensate for the lack of leaven. . . [W]oes are forgotten in the pleasures of the table, for if the Mosaic laws are rightly followed, no man need fear true poison in his belly, but only the results of his own gluttony.
Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!
I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!
Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.
Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die.
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.