#poison

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. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#clothes #dangerous #feed #food #like

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#against #chances #education #else #equipment

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#days #every #full #i #lead

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#became #breathing #convinced #dust #first

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#become #degrees #men #poison

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#handled #ill #moment #pain #patiently

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. ↗

— Chanakya

#poisonous #pretend #should #snake #venomous

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. ↗