No carrion will poison a crow. [ Proverb ]
Love abounds in honey and poison. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Poison is drunk out of golden cups. [ Seneca ]
Anxiety is the poison of human life. [ Blair ]
Sirs, adulation is a fatal thing -
Rank poison for a subject, or a king. [ Dr. Wolcot ]
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief.
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison and of plague. [ Armstrong ]
The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poison more deadly than a mad-dog's tooth. [ William Shakespeare ]
Suspicion is the poison of true friendship. [ Augustine ]
Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. [ Thomas Fuller ]
The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]
There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls. [ William Shakespeare ]
Even bees, the little alms-men of spring bowers,
Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. [ Keats ]
He that bites on every weed may light on poison. [ Proverb ]
Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffused;
As poison heals, in just proportion used;
In heaps, like ambergrise, a stink it lies,
But well dispersed, is incense to the skies. [ Pope ]
Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Where the bee sucks honey the spider sucks poison. [ Proverb ]
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows.
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost,
Weeps only tears of poison. [ Coleridge ]
Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses. [ Balzac ]
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world.
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell,
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. [ William Shakespeare ]
Gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell. [ Shakespeare ]
Malice drinks up the greatest part of its own poison. [ Proverb ]
Contempt will cause Spite to drink of her own poison. [ Proverb ]
That which is one man's meat is another man's poison. [ Proverb ]
Good-humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. [ Stanislaus ]
Poison lurks in the tail; or, there is a sting in the tail. [ Proverb ]
Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Cheerfulness is the heaven under which everything but poison thrives. [ Jean Paul ]
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. [ St. James ]
Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. [ Gregory ]
One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. [ Ouida ]
We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative. [ Macaulay ]
Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. [ J. F. Boyes ]
There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies. [ Charles Sumner ]
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who, when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. [ Johnson ]
Trifles we should not let plague us only, but also gratify us; we should seize not their poison-bags only, but their honey-bags also. [ Richter ]
What the poet has to cultivate above all things is love and truth; - what he has to avoid, like poison, is the fleeting and the false. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. [ Swift ]
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty. [ Willis ]
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. [ Carlyle ]
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it. [ Madame de Sevigne ]
The reasonable worship of a just God who punishes and rewards, would undoubtedly contribute to the happiness of men; but when that salutary knowledge of a just God is disfigured by absurd lies and dangerous superstitions, then the remedy turns to poison. [ Voltaire ]
What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. [ Seneca ]
Anxiety is the poison of human life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? [ Blair ]