{"quotes":[{"text":"Alas! They had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth. ","author":"Samuel Taylor Coleridge","tags":["friends","youth","poison "],"id":673,"author_id":"Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge"},{"text":"‎By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["fear","inspirational","love","motivational","poison","relationship","veins"],"id":7710,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["absolute","bad","circumstances","good","life","life-changing","life-changing-inspirational","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","nectar-there-is-nothing","poison","spiritual","wisdom"],"id":10448,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?","author":"Narendra Modi","tags":["long","face","poison "],"id":10547,"author_id":"Narendra+Modi"},{"text":"I had, therefore, to resign myself to commissioning a duplicate from a jeweller in Madrid. They did the work very nicely. The claws are curiously shaped, but the true marvel is the stone; it is so very limpid and weighs many carats, but notice also how it is hollowed out! You see that drop of green oil which takes the place of the internal tear? It is a drop of poison, an Indian toxin which strikes so rapidly and so corrosively that it only requires to come into momentary contact with one of a man's mucous membranes to rob him of his senses and induce rigour mortis.'It is instant death, certain but painless suicide, that I carry in this emerald. One bite' - and Ethal made as if to raise the ring to his lips - 'and with a single bound one has quit the mundane world of base instincts and crude works, to enter eternity.'Look upon the truest of friends: a deus ex machina which defies public opinion and cheats the police of their prey...'He laughed briefly. 'After all, we live in difficult times, and today's magistrates are so very meticulous. Salute as I do, my dear friend, the poison which saves and delivers. It is at your service, if ever the day should come when you are weary of life!","author":"Jean Lorrain","tags":["poison","poisoning","suicide"],"id":11393,"author_id":"Jean+Lorrain"},{"text":"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["bad","ego","egoism","egoist","egotism","egotist","enemy","envious","envy","fight","fighting","fool","fools","friends","friendships","gift","happiness","happy","hate","hater","hatred","jealous","jealousy","michael-bassey-johnson","money","negative","negative-people","pangs","people","poison","problem","prying","regret","regrets","relate","relationships","reveal","show","surprises","trouble","villian","witchcraft"],"id":13268,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"He asked her, 'Why do you feel sorry for me, Old Woman?'The Old Woman stood beside him and looked out the window at the Garden, so beautiful, flowering and everywhere illuminated by the rays of the setting sun, and said, 'I feel sorry for you, dear Youth, because I know where you are gazing and what you are waiting for. I feel sorry for you and your mother.'Perhaps because of these words, or perhaps because of something else, there was a change in the Youth's mood. The Garden, flowering behind the high fence below his window, and exuding a wonderful fragrance, suddenly seemed somehow strange to him; and an ominous sensation, a sudden fear, gripped his heart with a violent palpitation, like heady and languid fragrances rising from brilliant flowers.'What is happening?' he wondered in confusion.('The Poison Garden').","author":"Valery Bryusov","tags":["decadence","garden","innocence","poison","youth"],"id":13486,"author_id":"Valery+Bryusov"},{"text":"We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["balance","excess","inaction","moderation","patience","poison","procrastination","spirituality","success"],"id":15136,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"If your food is poison you will understand it.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["food","poison","understand"],"id":18903,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"Some people will try to condemn you to the prison of their bullshit. They tell you they want a soulmate, but they're actually creating a cellmate.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["poison","relationship","relationships","soulmates","toxic","truth"],"id":19981,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":177,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}