“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”
John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician
“What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.”
Book IV, line 637 (reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)
Compare: "What's one man's poison, signor, / Is another's meat or drink", Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (1647), Act III, scene 2
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
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““What do you mean by a tyrant?”
“One whose blood was poisoned by the ambition to rule over others.””
Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 309)
“I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar”
James St. James (1966) American writer
Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Freedom (1908)
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“His food
Was glory, which was poison to his mind
And peril to his body.”
Henry Taylor (1800–1886) English playwright and poet
Act I, sc. 5.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
Context: The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.
“What is one person's pleasure is another's poison….”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) Indian independence activist
As quoted by Governor Barnett's Declaration to the Profile of Mississippi Broadcast via TV and Radio. Sep. 13, 1962 http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/olemiss/controversy/doc2.html without citation and in An unknown legend of India: A bharat ratna By Gaurav Pundeer https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3736889569 <br class="br">Famous speeches