Poisonous Quotes

• Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Animal, Forests, Common

  Henry Walter Bates (1875). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

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• Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Pride

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• Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Silence, Silent, Silence Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.143, Penguin

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• It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

  Augustus Hare

  Sweet, Believe, Flower

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• Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

  Emma Goldman

  Strong, Expression, Poison

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.117, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Compassion, Soul, Impulse

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Snakes, Should

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• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Compassion, Soul

  Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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• What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

  Thomas Mann

  Eugenics, Ideas, Long

  "The War and the Future". Speech in 1940. "Order of the Day: Political Essays and Speeches of Two Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.

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• I really think I like poisonous snakes.

  Bindi Irwin

  Thinking, Snakes, Poisonous Snakes

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• Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

  Alveda King

  Errors, Racism, Abortion

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• Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

  Thomas Merton

  Errors, Tree, Giants

  Thomas Merton (1993). “The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers”, p.293, Macmillan

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• Not all the snakes are poisonous and not all the poisons are deadly! Keep this in mind when bitten.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Snakes, Mind, Poison

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• But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions. It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage this has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Children, Psychics, Punishment

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• Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Love Is, Thinking

  "Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Prologue), 1976.

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• Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

  Kris Carr

  Guilt, Language, Illusion

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Mar 21, 2013

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• I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Past, Years

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• Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Politics, Handicrafts, Profession

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

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• Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Pain, Being Human, Humiliation

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• Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.

  Sven Nykvist

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Animal, Clothes, People

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• Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Blow, Clouds, Air

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.361, Best Books on

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• All changes pass me like a dream,
  I neither sing nor pray;
  And thou art like the poisonous tree
  That stole my life away.

  Elizabeth Siddal

  Dream, Art, Tree

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• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Heart, Land

  "The Pope is a Model Politician" by Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2013.

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