#poison

Laughter is poison to fear. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#catelyn-stark #fear #george-r-r-martin #happiness #laughter

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

— Malachy McCourt

#like #other #person #poison #resentment

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures. ↗

— Steven Brust

#die #each #earth #fail #failures

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#best #bon #bon jovi #chili #fit

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#been #friends #had #poison #tongues

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becomes #diseases #hitherto #like #more

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

#doing #either #financially #get #i

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

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