One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
George Ade

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges Bataille

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Paracelsus

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Edwin Land

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston Churchill

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry B. Adams

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Malachy McCourt

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith

Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.
Levy Mwanawsa

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
William Empson

Superstition is the poison of the mind.
Joseph Lewis

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
John Owen

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Henry A. Wallace

The coward's weapon, poison.
John Fletcher

The dose makes the poison.
Paracelsus

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Jean Cocteau