#poison

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#been #friends #had #poison #tongues

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

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

#entire #everything #expression #fabric #germ

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#bright #flowers #i #i believe #moral

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#books #box #box office #come #done

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#even #harmless #impulses #most #poisonous

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

The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. How artfully she beckons, how perfectly she punishes.... ↗

— Kresley Cole

#poison-princess #art

You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage. ↗

— Evelyn Klebert

#camouflage #hidden #poison #surprised #beauty

In my carpet bag are the mushrooms that I gathered in the woods. With two fingers I pick up a piece and look at it. Then I take a bite and wait for my body to react. Now I'm in a better mood. In a short time I'll be dead. Or alive. I'm not always sure that there's any difference. ↗

— Peter H. Fogtdal

#life #mushrooms #poison #death