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Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. — George Lois

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick. — Gary Smalley

She's poison of the worst kind, a slow disease that eats the heart and rapes the soul. — C.M. Stunich

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. — Jean Anouilh

One person's medicine may be another person's poison. — Donald Karshner

You smoke?"
"Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot? — Richard K. Morgan

He felt a bit like Romeo to her Juliet, minus the feuding families and poison.
And with pigeons. — Julia Quinn

One becomes gradually accustomed to poison. — Victor Hugo

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton

He could be kind, when kindness lured a person to take a sip of poison. — Veronica Rossi

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. — Leo Tolstoy

Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer. — Hubert Selby Jr.

Well, that's a hell of a reason to poison yourself. — David Sedaris

and what sunshine are you going to bring into our lives today? Shall we poison the well or burn the house down? — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully. — James Ruddick

Macadamia nuts can be fatal to dogs, sometimes causing seizures and kidney failure. — John Richard Stephens

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison. — Paracelsus

There are many things not called poison which can kill a man, — Agatha Christie

One day I'll sneak a few drops of rat poison into that seed you love so much. — Eve Yohalem

And after Beltane is over, we will have the pleasure of watching our queen deliciously poison her sisters." Natalia — Kendare Blake

I GOT BOURBON-FACED ON SHIT STREET! — Kresley Cole

You're a peach full of poison, you know that? Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone. — Frances Hardinge

The choice to give up bitterness is not easy, but it is simple: peace or poison. And don't wait until you feel like making it. You never will. — Brent Weeks

Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain. — Henry Ward Beecher

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees — Victor Hugo

Don't let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future. — A.D. Posey

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. — John Owen

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. — John Keats

You're never safe from yourself. Your own blood will poison you. — Jeff Zentner

Would you rather be hungry or dead? — M.J. Carter

It often has been said that unforgiveness is like you drinking poison but expecting the other person to die. — Nancy Alcorn

She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist.
I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict. — Julian Fellowes

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn
always keep the TV on,
brush your teeth and kill the germs,
poison apples, poison worms. — Trenton Lee Stewart

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it. — Mike Judge

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. — Stefan Molyneux

Poison cannot penetrate the hand that is free of wounds. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves. — Thomas Sherlock

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches. — Jeremy Bentham

Only when we drink poison are we well. — Charles Baudelaire

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back. — Yvette Christianse

Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison. — Denis Johnson

A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water. — Bella Pollen

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach. — Greg Rucka

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ... — Christopher Paolini

The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow. — F. Sionil Jose

There are people who hate the truth. It is a poison to them. The only way to protect themselves from the poison is to eliminate those who bring it. — J.S. Bailey

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. — Elena Ferrante

He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts. — John Steinbeck

Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards. If you poison the earth, there is a fortune to be made. — June Stoyer

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. — Nancy Astor

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. — John Ortberg Jr.

An angry man is full of poison. — Confucius

You're nothing more than poison in my veins. — LeAnne Mechelle

Laughter is poison to fear. I — George R R Martin

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick. — George Lois

The angrier you are, the more poison you have inside of you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The only antidote for the corrosive poison of violence is finding peace within yourself. — Christopher Paolini

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. — D.H. Lawrence

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. — Jonathan Swift

Every rose has its thorn. Just like every night has its dawn. Just like every cowboy sings a sad, sad song. Every rose has it's thorn. — Poison

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous. — Paracelsus 1493-1541

She was exhausted, and had spent some time breathing smoke and poison. — Christina Henry

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day
hoping that the other person will die. — Debbie Ford

Ricin - Death by diarrhea — Anders Breivik

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst. — Sam Killermann

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul — Dean Koontz

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison. — James Purdy

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant — Samuel Johnson

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth. — Harmeet Singh

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? — William Shakespeare

I'll own up: I think it is a dream, Miss Verena. But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison. — Truman Capote

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference. — Maximilian Kolbe

The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing. — Yasmin Mogahed

I now have learn'd Love right, and learn'd even so,
As who by being poisoned doth poison know. — Philip Sidney

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself. — Emmeline Pankhurst

I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target ... they're the poison gas of cyberspace. — John Perry Barlow

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. — George Gurdjieff

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. — Ignatius Of Loyola

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. — Ayn Rand

recognizing how even poison is a form of medicine when used the right way. — Kiera Van Gelder

We all have our times of anger. It's when we hang onto that anger it becomes a poison to our heart and mind. — Ron Baratono

Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him. — Rachel Higginson

Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools
which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous? — Marianne Moore

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. — Winston Churchill

Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy. — Nelson Mandela

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could. — Louis Zamperini

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. — Marian Wright Edelman

Elide did not give her fear another heartbeat to whisper its poison into her blood. — Sarah J. Maas

Surround yourself with snakes, and they will poison you. Surround yourself with eagles, and you will learn to fly to the heavens. — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart. — Mary Jo Putney

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott

He had a skull and crossbones label on him, but I drank his poison nevertheless and loved it; now I needed an antidote. — Genna Rulon

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. — Andre Maurois

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy. — Humphry Davy

Revenge is like a poison in our heart before you now it; turns us into something ugly — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Human beings are a much worse poison than schnapps or tobacco. — Erich Maria Remarque

Motivation is a drug: a cure when it is in effect and poison when it is off effect. — Ben Tolosa

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar. — B.R. Ambedkar

He would kiss me, right now, after everything I'd done. I was poison, and Noah was the drug that would make me forget it. — Michelle Hodkin