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The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.


Theodore Sturgeon

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What is food to one is to another bitter poison.
LUCRETIUS What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.
CASSANDRA CLARE One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.
GEORGE ADE One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach
GEORGE ADE It's kind of pick your poison now.
ADRIAN MOSS You kind of have to pick your poison. You didn't want to give up 3s, and you didn't want to let him ...
BOBBY LUTZ Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a re...
PARACELSUS Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a re...
PHILIPUS AUREOLUS PARACELSUS Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; ...
BIBLE Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; / ...
BIBLE Anything which you have in profusion is poison
AMIT KALANTRI Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.
JOHN LOCKE Fight poison with poison
CHINESE PROVERBS One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
GEORGE ADE I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in in...
FREDERIC CHOPIN Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison; a meal is poison to him who suffers from indige...
CHANAKYA Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
EDWIN LAND Politeness is the poison of collaboration
EDWIN LAND Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Superstition is the poison of the mind.
JOSEPH LEWIS Superstition is the poison of the mind
JOSEPH LEWIS Pain is poison to the body. Worry is toxic to the mind. Yearning is venom to the heart.
Lust ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
SALMAN RUSHDIE The masquerade that liars wear seems to always make people think that the victim is the poison, whil...
TILLARA GENNETT Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
EDWIN H. LAND The surest poison is time.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very di...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR) Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will di...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poison is drunk out of gold. [Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengi...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, the...
PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay; But, al...
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood....
DEMODOCUS One man's strawberries are another man's hives.
DONALD G. COOLEY What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Hier aupres de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Freron, Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Ce...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Don't confuse contentment with happiness...
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PARACELSUS They would like to poison me.
ZDENKO TOMANOVIC Panic is poison.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath th...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS Laughter is poison to fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
ST. BERNARD Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST. Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD ST. Holding a grudge, is like ingesting poison & expecting your enemy to die. Have U taken any poison la...
WILLIAM PAISLEY The Spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the old Serpent has brought upon the children of Men is to...
COTTON MATHER Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
ADAM SMITH To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization...
DERRICK JENSEN The coward's weapon, poison.
JOHN FLETCHER A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, kno...
KATE CHRISTENSEN In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balan...
PRESTON STURGES Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, tha...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison
LORD CHESTERFIELD The dose makes the poison.
PARACELSUS Obsession is a medicinal poison.
CHRISTOPHER MOLINEUX Girls with poison necklaces
to save themselves from torture.
Just as women wear amulets MICHAEL ONDAATJE Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
ALFRED NOBEL One's tongue has neither bone nor poison; however, it depends on one's words that, what, and how it ...
EHSAN SEHGAL I'm shocked that we are arguing about a poison and how much of a poison we are supposed to take in.
LUISE LIGHT Life is poison and death is the only potion.
JARVIS DUVEL GAYDEN absolute poison.
JANIS JOPLIN Food for the ego is poison for the soul.
DONNA GODDARD There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off ...
PAUL GOODMAN My brain is sending poison to my heart.
JOHN IRVING In poison there is no physic.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civi...
ORSON SCOTT CARD History shows the poison pill under normal circumstances doesn't benefit shareholders. If the corpor...
LARRY HAVERTY Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY The honied tongue hath its poison.
UNKNOWN Expect poison from the standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus,...
ALAN BRADLEY Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending y...
MARIA V. SNYDER You've got to pick your poison.
MICHAEL UHL Never take the antidote before the poison
LATIN PROVERB In fact, he's never taken an interest in a woman before. I was beginning to to suspect he might pref...
MARIA V. SNYDER ...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The antidote for the poison of fear is faith in a higher power.
JIM GENOVESE What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
LUCRETIUS What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS It's a matter of pick your poison. They sagged down on our big guys and left our shooters open. They...
ADRIAN MOSS My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
WILLIAM EMPSON Singletary's a big shot-maker and so is Reynolds. It's sort of, 'Pick your poison. As has been our w...
SKIP PROSSER Singletary's a big shot-maker and so is Reynolds. It's sort of, 'Pick your poison.' As has been our ...
SKIP PROSSER Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast.'
The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph...
WILLIAM GOLDING All goodnessIs poison to thy stomach.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
LUCRETIUS He's a big shot-maker at the end of the game. So is Reynolds. You've sort of got to pick your poison...
SKIP PROSSER we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
MALACHY MCCOURT Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
CINDY CLABOUGH Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
CARRIE FISHER Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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THEODORE TRONCHIN The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they kn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds a...
THEODORE MUNGERS All the resources we need are in the mind
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! Tha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
THEODORE PARKER The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous ma...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
THEODORE ROETHKE CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.
THEODORE LEVITT Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
THEODORE HESBURGH A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had alrea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
THEODORE HESBURGH The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
THEODORE LEAVITT We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our f...
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