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Poison Quotes

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

"GEEZER BUTLER - 'The '80's Were The Worst Period For Metal'". Metal Exiles Interview, bravewords.com. March 24, 2005.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Swami Vivekananda (1904). “From Colombo to Almora: Being a Record of Swami Vivekananda's Return to India After His Mission to the West. Includes Reports of His Lectures and Replies to Addresses”

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.13, The Majority Press

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.143, Penguin

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

"Fictional character: Hubert Hawkins". "The Court Jester", www.imdb.com. January 27, 1956.

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

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.300, Cambridge University Press

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.74