Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
When there is a lack of honor in government the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom others when it is a bitter tonic and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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.
There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there got food poisoning and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.
My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
In addition to contributing to erosion pollution food poisoning and the dead zone corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food those by-products.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.
On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people which is great but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want put poison out there really without fear of any repercussions.
You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner but not both and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.