Mithridates Poison Quotes & Sayings

Money is a great way to get happiness. Right? Lots of wonderful things you can do with money. The question is, are we really optimizing on that? So, if you think about getting lattes and getting cable. Which one of those is actually giving you a greater happiness, and if you have to cut on one of those, which one would you cut? So, I think thinking in terms of concrete terms would help us a great deal. — Dan Ariely

Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are its songs of creation. — Amit Ray

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them. — Charles Caleb Colton

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot ... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. — Michael Jordan

Drop that zero and get with the hero! — Vanilla Ice

Language is how we hack other people's brains. It's how we make them see things the way we want them to see them. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Our attitude to people determines their attitude to us. — Sunday Adelaja

We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him. — A.E. Housman