Poison Quotes - Page 39

• What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Class, People

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
  the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
  much poison.

  Ovid

  Love, Pain, Shells

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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

  Marianne Moore

  Mushrooms, Doe, Toadstools

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.56, Macmillan

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• When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.

  Herman Melville

  Beach, Betrayal, Hate

  Herman Melville (2017). “The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales, Philosophical Works, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, John Marr and Other Sailors…”, p.28, e-artnow

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• That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison.

  Steve Nash

  Motivational, Basketball, Team

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• Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

  Janet Fitch

  Tattoo, Artist, Mind

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
  Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

  William Blake

  Regret, Eye, Ears

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.162, Routledge

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• When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.

  Mario Puzo

  Lying, Dark, Eyelashes

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• Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, People, Needs

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• I'm not going to lie: There are times I play mind tricks on myself, like that the french fries are poison. With desserts, I'll let myself have just one bite, but I'll look like a freak when I'm eating it, like when I did Duncan Hines commercials as a kid, just savoring every morsel.

  Fergie

  Lying, Kids, Play

  ELLE Intreview, www.elle.com. April 7, 2010.

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• I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no respect for the teachers, their attitude didn't poison the writing that I was discovering for myself.

  Craig Ferguson

  Teacher, Attitude, Writing

  "American on Purpose". Book by Craig Ferguson, 2009.

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• ... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

  John Ruskin

  Men, Daguerreotypes, Century

  Robert Hewison, Ian Warrell, John Ruskin, Stephen Wildman, Tate Britain (Gallery) (2000). “Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites”, Tate Gallery Pubn

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• Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

  David Hume

  Food, Virtue, Wholesome Food

  David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.314

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• The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

  Ann Wigmore

  Motivational, Powerful, Food

  Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.9, Penguin

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• Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

  Rodney Mullen

  Individuality, Looks, Break

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• If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

  Bill Hicks

  Friday, Monday, Stupid

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• 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

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old. He had resolved that his beautiful white hands would never be soiled or calloused. He wanted to be like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind. The only thing that seemed valid to him was to live for the emotions--gratuitous and unstable, dying only to quicken again, dwindling and flaring without direction or purpose.

  Yukio Mishima

  Beautiful, Hands, Years

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Saint, Limits, Indifference

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• How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Creativity, Ideas

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• Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

  Rachel Carson

  Home, Circles, Insanity

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Pain, Emotional

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• Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day
  hoping that the other person will die.

  Debbie Ford

  Forgiveness, Resentment, Drink

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• Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Knowing

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• Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Weak, Rejects

  Swami Vivekananda (1904). “From Colombo to Almora: Being a Record of Swami Vivekananda's Return to India After His Mission to the West. Includes Reports of His Lectures and Replies to Addresses”

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