Quotes by Poison To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die. Saint Augustine dies poison All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you. Rumi heal poison desire By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary]. Saint Augustine poison men fall Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison. Salman Rushdie adults poison children Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin. Saint Augustine devil poison sweet Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison. Samuel Hopkins Adams poison strong inspiration Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die. Sandi Bachom anger poison enemy Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge whispering gossip poison We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. Samuel Taylor Coleridge poison half self Alas! they had been friends in youth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge poison brain life Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. Samuel Johnson vipers poison desire Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant Samuel Johnson whisky poison art Live or die but don't poison everything. Saul Bellow dies poison Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion. Samuel Johnson poison vices together The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation. Samuel Johnson poison air writing I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope. Scott Lynch killing poison names He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed. Seneca the Younger poison sweet life Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children Siddharth Katragadda couple poison children Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world. Sir Fulke Greville vanity medicine poison The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. Simone Weil tuberculosis disease poison «1112131415161718192021»