Food Poison Quotes

#1. Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

David Hume

#2. Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.

John Newton

#3. Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.

John Balguy

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

Walter Bagehot

#5. One Man's food is another Man's Poison

Lucretius

#6. Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

Artur Schnabel

#7. Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.

Wladimir Klitschko

#8. Food can be a poison or a cure. Why would you choose to ingest toxins when you could be taking the world's best detox medicine. For the purposes of detoxification, let me be clear; always try to eat organic.

Woodson Merrell

#9. "I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use the water this way is deplorable." Charles Gordon Heyd, M.D., Past President, American Medical Association.

Charles Bernhard Heyd

#10. Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

#11. People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.

Ruth Rendell

#12. Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history ... Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#13. The food that you eat can either be the safest and most powerful medicine or the slowest form of poison. - Ann Wigmore

Mindy Pelz

#14. Yes, the rich. And that's their misfortune. You see, if you keep adding copper bit by bit to a child's food, you prevent the growth of its bones, and he'll be a dwarf; and if from his youth up you poison a man with gold, you deaden his soul. Once,

Maxim Gorky

#15. Religion, far from being beneficial food, turns to poison in infected brains.

Voltaire

#16. What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Lucretius

#17. Memory. My poison, my food.

Eduardo Galeano

#18. What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

Lucretius

#19. Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

Chanakya

#20. If your food is poison you will understand it.

Deyth Banger

#21. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Ayn Rand

#22. Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

Levy Mwanawasa

#23. Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

John Cage

#24. 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.

Paul Goodman

#25. Once again, there was a terrorist attack inside my mouth.

Namekojirushi

#26. Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.

Lucretius

#27. I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

Shirley Jackson

#28. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

Eduardo Galeano

#29. Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.

Victor Hugo

#30. Food for the ego is poison for the soul.

Donna Goddard

#31. The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

Ann Wigmore

#32. She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all.

Clive Barker

#33. Getting the poison to them is more difficult than it should be. I cannot just slip it into their food, they eat with the rest of the household, and as much as I dislike everyone here, I am not willing to poison them all. At least not yet.

Robin LaFevers

#34. People can poison people; people can also promote people. People can push people up; people can also pull people down. Don't just follow people cheerfully; follow people carefully!

Israelmore Ayivor

#35. The real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that grows up in the heart when people are jealous of one another and cannot speak these feelings and drain out the poison that way.

Alexander McCall Smith

#36. He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes.

John Updike

#37. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

C.S. Lewis