Quotes by Poison Anything in excess is a poison. Theodore Levitt excess poison I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine. Thomas A. Edison alcohol poison brain 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 poison people We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative. Thomas B. Macaulay medicine poison thinking Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place. Thomas Brooks wicked poison men I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be. Thomas Pynchon fantasy poison littles Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out. Tiberius mud poison Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach. Thomas Paine poison use evil Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. Thomas Paine care guilt poison Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms. Trenton Lee Stewart teeth apples poison Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life? Tryon Edwards medicine poison believe Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. Tryon Edwards anxiety poison parent Religion poisons everything good in this world. Unknown this-world poison world Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. Ursula K. Le Guin excess body poison Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again. Veronica Roth divergent poison long Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment. Victor Hugo poison self dream She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. Virgil poison secret fire The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison. Vladimir Nabokov abiding poison fire Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. Vladimir Lenin poison authority reality Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism. Volkmar Sigusch fantasy poison dirty «1112131415161718192021»