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Poison Quotes - Page 13

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.110

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

Alice Sebold (2008). “The Almost Moon”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!

Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1778). “The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem”, p.53