Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
~ Georges Bataille
Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
~ Narendra Modi
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
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
~ Lucretius
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
~ Walter Bagehot
We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
~ Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
~ Emile M. Cioran
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
~ Marcel Proust
I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.
~ Joyce Meyer
There's no reason that we need to be counting things and adding things up in order to sit down and eat a meal. I enjoy eating so much; I don't want to do match every time I eat. I guarantee you, maybe your diet soda has no calories, but it's still poison. We have to think about what are we putting in our mouths.
~ Rory Freedman
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
~ André Maurois
I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.
~ Kip Winger
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
~ Alfred A. Montapert
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
