Top 1200 Drinking Poison Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison. Now, if you like poison, why shouldn't you have it? But don't try to pretend that it's innocuous.
I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so. — © James Purdy
I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.
We try to be present when we are drinking our tea, which isn't as easy as it sounds. It's very easy to think, right now I'm going to be really present while I'm drinking my tea, here I am drinking my tea, and I'm so present, look this is easy, I am here drinking my tea and I know I'm drinking my tea blah blah blah blah... right? And the one place where the mind is not, is here. It's just thinking about being here.
If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking.
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.
Drinking, eating, shopping, revenge, rebound sex, drugs or whatever your poison may be will number the pain - but that's all.
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.
I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.
Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.
There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing. — © Liz Brixius
There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.
All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.
I always say I stumbled on the information about the poison in Hinkley's drinking water because I was sort of stumbling about in my life at that time generally, as a single mother.
It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
It's quite true I'm not drinking anymore; however, I'm not drinking any less either.
I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble. You can get away with that your 20s, but not in your 60s, and I'll be 70 next year. Life is a small space now, much more intimate. I'm not out there in the world anymore, but I'm watching.
Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.
Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.
Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.
You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the same as drinking. Drinking pleases, mellows, loosens the tongue and inhibitions; drinking wine with food is healthy and natural; drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.
There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.
Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
I write songs by sitting around in bars, so drinking songs are a little obvious. It's surprising that I don't write entirely drinking songs, since I am, in fact, drinking while writing the song. Drinking and love are the two principal sources of pleasure outside of music. There's only so many sources of pleasure, really. That's about it. Well, there are other arts as well. But none of them are as pleasurable as music, on a physical level.
A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.
ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.
I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process. — © Freddie Hubbard
I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.
I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.
Am I drinking today? Well, put it this way, I'm not not drinking.
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.
Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wish to do so. I never, ever drink while on duty. The drinking is only for my pleasure. I do not remember neglecting my duties because of drinking even once.
Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.
I wasn't drinking to get drunk. It's social drinking, so what's the point? It's empty calories, you're poisoning yourself. — © Spencer Matthews
I wasn't drinking to get drunk. It's social drinking, so what's the point? It's empty calories, you're poisoning yourself.
You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is secondhand smoke really the chiefest of your health concerns at this point?
There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.
Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.
Drinking and driving is safer than either drinking or driving - and no one has ever died drinking, driving and juggling.
Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.
nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.
That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.
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