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Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison.

Bob Dylan

Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.

William Shakespeare

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

Benjamin Franklin

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done.

Kin Hubbard

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

Joe Paterno

These poison-pen and terrorist hoaxes are becoming all too common, and these individuals who were arrested need to know there are consequences for their actions.

Laura Eimiller

No one who has not been siezed by the merderous jaws of the viper can know its poison fangs.

Adolf Hitler

As an attempt to break the union, and at best is simply an unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of the organization. It's like a poison pill.

John Remington

Those who would poison the minds of our young people that were not going to take it anymore.

Jennifer M. Granholm

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Bernard, St.

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Ambrose Bierce

You're putting poison in a person's body, no matter how controlled. We would like to think there's more hope for an alcoholic than to just give them measured amounts of alcohol.

John Mohan

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

This goes hand in hand with other initiatives that the governor has taken to fight lead poisoning, protect the environment, protect children's health. It's something that we support.

Gerardo Cardenas

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Saint Ignatius Of Loyola

The Adopt a Drain program is a great way for the average person to make a difference helping to stop pollutants that would otherwise poison the Indian River Lagoon.

Jim Egan

We had to pick our poison: Do we cover the perimeter or inside? They shot the ball extremely well and Devlin was just too strong for us.

Tim Mcconnell

In most cases, the idea behind poison pills is to give members of the board full control of the takeover process.

Barry Goldsmith

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Francis Schaeffer

Why would pediatricians now want to continue injecting children with a known nerve poison?

Alan Clark

Emotions tend to be contagious. Toxic ones leak out into the workplace affecting more than just the person afflicted. It can poison a team, a workplace, an organization.

Peter Frost

It's premature to talk about an act of terror. The investigators will find out if the poisoning was accidental or not.

Valery Kuznetsov

It looked like they had been drinking some hot chocolate. We also found nearby some poisoning. The poisoning was called Tempo. It was an insecticide poisoning. We also found, right by that, a mixing glass.

Police Chief Richard Mckinley

I felt like poisoning a monk.

Umberto Eco

He was either on an upper or alcohol poisoning or something.

Carlos Martinez

No evidence of poisoning has been found.

Fausto Pocar

There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.

Michael J. Tucker

In 1961, Congress decided to proclaim National Poison Prevention Week so we could get information out to people and let them know how important it is to keep children away from poisons.

Lori Brenner

It's very hard to stop him because he's a very good player. He penetrates real well, he shoots the ball real well and you really have to pick your poison with him in which way you're going to let him try to beat you.

Greg Fox

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

George Bataille

[The opposing defense] has to pick their poison. Do you want Adam to run or pass? It's a good play, especially when we're effective with our sweeps and options, because then its a deadly play.

Steve Weber

They have a lot of weapons, and you really have to pick your poison defensively. You can play man, but they're very patient in their offense and take you to the basket. Then, when you play zone, they spread you out and kill you with 3-pointers.

Bill Herrion

Onyx says they have a poison pill in place, though I haven't seen it yet. It seems like an extreme method, but it could happen.

Rob Bois

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

After a golden retriever named Scooby died from antifreeze poisoning and gained media attention, both legislators worked to bring back to life a 2004 legislative bill that would require antifreeze to contain a bittering agent.

Lisa Jennings

I found the mouse on the road near my house. Someone was putting out rat poison, and it claimed the mice as well. In fact, it almost killed my dog.

Janet Culbertson

I don't know if I cut more poison ivy than brush, ... I had perpetual poison ivy for five years.

Ted Nierenberg

If you have two big men who can score that close to the basket, it requires [defensive] help. So, if they help on Jai, he can pass to Will, or find a [perimeter] shooter. Basically, the defense has to pick its poison.

Lamar Butler

They have an inside-outside game and you basically have to pick your poison. Part of it was fatigue, some of it was getting away from playing the way we need to be successful and it took us too long to try to get that back.

Tim Buckley

They're putting us in a box. At the end of the day, the poison pill they put in there may make us oppose it.

Susie Caplowe

The fact Rich has been sick (with food poisoning) the last few days and lost a little weight, well, we've got time. This won't hurt him.

Curt Young

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, they finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean Cocteau

We have a lot of different weapons, so you pick your poison. Other teams have to decide on what to do with three or four kids that can break it on you at any time.

Joe Nichols

One thing I do remember, ... is that it was one of those early smog days. We said USC was trying to poison us. It was hard to breathe, although that wasn't the reason we didn't win the game.

Terry Brennan

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Derrick Jensen

This is a poison pill. It (the ban on speech payments) needs to come off and we need to address this issue in separate legislation.

Pete Maysmith

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

Steven Wright

Parents must recognize that any medicine is a potential poison when taken in high dose, or by the wrong person.

Dr. David L. Katz

It's only a partial solution, ... It's like they're saying, 'We'll still sell you poison, but we'll give you an antidote too.'

Pat Dorsey

Our inside really took care of business tonight. I think that was the definite advantage. When we get that inside outside game going, you have to pick your poison.

Nick Vandewalle

They're a pick-your-poison type (of team). They play great offense (in the paint and on the perimeter). They're not the kind of team you want to zone, but I really felt we couldn't keep up with their movement.

Beth Burns

It was taken very seriously. There was no way of knowing it was a hoax. It had to be treated as if it were anthrax or some other poison.

Larae Quy

Everybody's upset. I guess they're just going to have to pump him full of poison one way or the other.

Brian Chalk

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Lucretius

At conference, he got food poisoning and basically ended up in the hospital for a couple days. He got really sick and it's too bad. He would have been in the NCAA indoor championships had that not happened.

Amy Christofferson

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

John Cage

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

Bernie Siegel

Ciguatera is the most common, naturally occurring fish-related seafood poisoning.

Vince Speranza

Well, if there's poison in the beer, you shut down St. Patty's day.

Pat Buchanan

In some races, it certainly has been poison candy. And he's got a mouth full of it.

Mac Stipanovich

You can find flax seed meal. Some people say to use fish oil to get omega 3s, but then you also get mercury poisoning.

Denise Dowell

We finally got him healthy and thought he was going to play a lot tonight. But he must've had food poisoning or something like that.

Ron Hunter

They're extremely tough. We knew we had to pick our poison and decided to see if they could shoot it in an area like this. They proved they could shoot it and some we took didn't go in.

Mark Sovers

With regard to the distribution and elimination from the body, the kinetics of the poison in the body and also the final prognosis, we still are lagging behind.

Michael Zimpfer

Certain plant parts are associated with crime, drugs or poison. We encourage the public to go to the [Delaware] Cooperative Extension first. The stuff they can't identify, they send to us. We do the hard things.

Arthur Tucker

It's much easier to give somebody a poison pill than actually treat someone and provide them services in the community that they need to live and die.

Teresa Favuzzi

It's true that school can poison things - some people hate W.C. Williams' little poem about the wheelbarrow because somebody bullied them with it in school.

Robert Pinsky

I'm shocked that we are arguing about a poison and how much of a poison we are supposed to take in.

Luise Light

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Paul Goodman

[N.C. State is] a very good basketball team, and they're really hard to play against. I love the way they play. Herb does a great job with that program. They have a lot of weapons, and you really have to pick your poison defensively. ? They're a very efficient team. I like their chemistry.

Bill Herrion

The problem that you have is that there's a whole lot of housekeeping -- and one major poison pill in it. We don't oppose the general housekeeping.

William Eaton

You've got to pick your poison.

Michael Uhl

With $4 billion at stake, you would fight to the last, ... has been a poison for U.S.-Canada relations?. That is what the Byrd amendment has generated.

Gary Hufbauer

He's been playing exceptionally well. In the LSU game, he was the guy they went to down the stretch, so we know he's good. But we tried to pick our poison a little bit. This is a team with a Hall of Fame coach and a lot of good players.

Andy Kennedy

We're just happy to be in. You don't want to be asked to pick your poison.

Brad Richards

The traditional superstition has put on the cloak of modern high technology, poisoning an increasing number of Chinese kids and youth.

Xu Xiuyu

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

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Courtney is really crafty. You may deny her. Then she pins you for the next pass. You may take away her shot but she's a great passer. It's like picking your poison with her. She's really good.

Tiffany Jackson

Nightly poison of advertising… which boosts the sale of goods to the working class, is against the national interest.

John Wilmot

If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just Sean Morris.

Guy Van Arsdale

The Spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the old Serpent has brought upon the children of Men is to be deplored exceedingly.

Cotton Mather

The primary problem is the farmers. Out of fear for their herds, they shoot or poison the lions.

Kristin Nowell

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

William Murray

You have to pick your poison with them. We're concentrating so much on Dwayne Wade and we're doubling Shaq that you leave a guy like Antoine open for shots, and (he's) a guy who can hurt you. That's what happens.

Paul Pierce

Shareholders don't like poison pills, because they help entrench management and allow management to reject lucrative acquisition offers.

Bill Armstrong

Frankly, one has to wonder why they would want to poison the well so early in the legislative session.

Jason Gibbs

There are two things that can hurt an economy, one is a deficit and the other is higher taxes, so it's almost a matter of pick your poison, ... But why do we have to run deficits, or why do we need higher taxes? They both really stem from not the tax cuts but from overspending.

Tim Kane

Now, for four or five years, I don't get nothing, I don't hear nothing. And I don't ask why. Ray had been sick only one day in his life. Pneumonia. Maybe food poisoning. It was before a fight. I had to go to Philadelphia because he wouldn't go to the hospital. He called the hospital a good place to die. He didn't ride elevators, either. Ray is not a man to be trapped.

Leila Smith

It is an absolute poison and a scourge on society and it is time to talk about it.

Ralph Klein

Leslie (Alexander) is the practitioner. I'm very interested in why people choose to poison the things they are going to eat.

Sonja Hunt

There are indications that it was going to be a double suicide, but she couldn't force herself to drink the poison, so he killed her and then drank the poison.

Inspector Dennis Maffei

I have been teaching guitar all of my playing life. I really needed to do this. Where the ranch is now there were only prickly bushes and poison ivy. It has exceeded our wildest expectations for me and my blues-picking buddies.

Jorma Kaukonen

She was so helpful and so sweet and so giving, ... I call it the food-poisoning effect. Everybody knows where they got food poisoning. We take that first bite and there's kind of an awful taste or a bad smell. You knew it was a little off, but you just kept going.

Howie Mandel

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

Carrie Fisher

With CCC, it's just a matter of picking your poison.

Frank Sullivan

There will be a demand for (the additional beds). This thing is the not going away. It's the worst poison I've ever seen.

Mike Thatcher

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

Mitch Albom

When you see a combination like that, you just have to pick your poison. We wanted to take away their drives and contest the post.

Jeff Brink

They have an inside-outside game -- they have guys who can score in the post, and guys who can shoot from 3, and you basically have to pick your poison.

Tim Buckley

It's good soap. It'll get poison ivy off — and ring around the collar. And it won't eat up your hands, no matter what you've heard people say.

Bretta Perkins

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

Thomas Brooks

We've got many weapons. You've got to pick your poison, whether you want it out at the perimeter or in the paint.

Mike Harvey

Singletary's a big shot-maker and so is Reynolds. It's sort of, 'Pick your poison. As has been our won't lately, it ended up being poison.

Skip Prosser

We're scratching our heads over here. The data from day to day seems to go in different directions. Pick your poison.

Donna Van Vlack

When we played team ball we played well. When we had patience on offense our outside shots opened up our inside game, and on some nights our inside game opened up the outside. Teams had to pick their poison against us.

Wayne Cafferty

Your bad day is my food poisoning.

Kevin Kavanaugh

In Vietnam, they poisoned us with Agent Orange, and now they are poisoning another generation with depleted uranium and other toxins.

Dave Curry

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

George Gurdjieff

We see that, peeling paint, as a potential for lead poisoning and a toxic threat.

Jackie Hayes

Official U.S. government policy in the Clinton administration is to grow food chain crops --the food supply of America -- on poison. And not to tell the public.

Hugh Kaufman

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Edwin H. Land

We're talking about releasing poison here. Once you do that, the body can begin to heal itself.

Elizabeth D'leon

When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.

Elise Armacost

Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.

Edwin H. Land

They would like to poison me.

Zdenko Tomanovic