Poison Control Quotes

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned,I do the poisoning.I'm the princess of it.

In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that's inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Until the last third of the nineteenth century, when it was criminalized state by state across the land, abortion was legal before "quickening" (approximately the fourth month of pregnancy). Colonial home medical guides gave recipes for "bringing on the menses" with herbs that could be grown in one's garden or easily found in the woods. By the mid eighteenth century commercial preparations were so widely available that they had inspired their own euphemism ("taking the trade"). Unfortunately, these drugs were often fatal. The first statutes regulating abortion, passed in the 1820s and 1830s, were actually poison-control laws.

Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.