The gods have sent
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself. Euripides
Venom
The hatred and cruelty
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. Eric Hoffer
Add a few drops
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. Eric Hoffer
Have you ever wondered,
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as ‘controversial, ‘extremist’, ‘explosive’, ‘disgraceful’, and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing … Read more
No language can fitly
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was \”Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his … Read more
A man I knew
A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look’d plump and fair, While rankest venom foam’d through every vein. Edward Young
Sin is a basilisk
Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin … Read more
Fallen myths can instill
Fallen myths can instill venom. Denis de Rougemont
I was young, but
I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth … Read more
You’re not allowed to
You’re not allowed to park a truck in your driveway. You’re not allowed to work on your house on Sunday. The people who enforce these laws are nuts. After I wrote a column on this, I got I don’t know how many letters from Coral Gables homeowners, story after story after story, wonderfully horrible stories. … Read more