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
Famous speeches
““What do you mean by a tyrant?”
“One whose blood was poisoned by the ambition to rule over others.””
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 309)
“What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.”
Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.
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)
“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“4380. That which is one Man’s Meat, is another Man’s Poison.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.”
Source: Midnight Tides (2004)
“My master Attalus used to say: "Evil herself drinks the largest portion of her own poison." The poison which serpents carry for the destruction of others, and secrete without harm to themselves, is not like this poison; for this sort is ruinous to the possessor.”
Quemadmodum Attalus noster dicere solebat, 'malitia ipsa maximam partem veneni sui bibit'. Illud venenum quod serpentes in alienam perniciem proferunt, sine sua continent, non est huic simile: hoc habentibus pessimum est.
Quemadmodum Attalus noster dicere solebat, 'malitia ipsa maximam partem veneni sui bibit'.
Illud venenum quod serpentes in alienam perniciem proferunt, sine sua continent, non est huic simile: hoc habentibus pessimum est.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXI: On benefits, Line 22
“The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
~ The Poison Belt”
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“This much poison cannot pour in one’s ears without it will leave some trace.”
Book Two, Part III “The Sorceress”, Chapter 1 (p. 302)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
