The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.
Slander is poison to the soul.
Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.
Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!
We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.
You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
An angry person is always full of poison.
A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.
Anything else you want to tell me?” I asked Valek as we stopped a few feet short of the castle’s south entrance. “Did Ari and Janco set me up for Nix’s attack? Do you have another test of loyalty for me up your sleeve? Maybe the next time, I’ll actually fail. A prospect that seems appealing!” I pushed away Valek’s supporting arm. “When you warned me that you would test me from time to time, I thought you meant spiking my food. But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person’s heart, and it doesn’t even require a meal.
Memory. My poison, my food.
I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.
Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.
But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.
"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life. "
I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.