Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

Ben Nelson

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

Eliphas Levi

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

Eric Betzig

Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

A. E. Housman

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

D. H. Lawrence

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Christopher Paolini

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ...

Anne Bishop

Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.

Andre Maurois

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

John McGinnis

He is very loathe to inject any social thinking into decisions.

Daisy Ridley

I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

Paul Theroux

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

P. J. Harvey

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

Robert A. Heinlein

Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.