The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A poison embitters much sweetness. (English)
Another man’s poison is not necessarily yours. (English)
Control poison with poison. (Japanese)
Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey. (Roman)
Do not drink poison to quench a thirst. (Arabian)
Good wine and a pretty wife are two sweet poisons to a man. (Rumanian)
He eats arsenic to poison the tiger. (Chinese)
‘I am a judge of cresses’, said the peasant, as he was eating hemlock. (Danish)
If you have to take poison, lick even the plate. (Japanese)
No poison is drunk out of earthenware [i.e., the poor and powerless need not fear being poisoned]. (Roman)
One poison is cured by another. (Roman)
Poison drives out poison. (Italian)
Poison is drunk from a gold cup. (Roman)
Take not the antidote before the poison. (Roman)
The one who stirs poison will taste it. (Egyptian)
There is no poison in a poor man’s house. (German)
What does not poison, fattens. (Italian)
What’s one man’s meat is another man’s poison. (German)
When the bee sucks, it makes honey, when the spider, poison. (Spanish)
This is the complete article, containing 177 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page).
View More Summaries on Poison
