Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
Poison
I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.