quotes about Toads
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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)
-- Arnold Lobel -
The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.
-- Celia Thaxter -
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A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
-- Chinua Achebe -
You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake
-- Christine Feehan -
And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.
-- Delmore SchwartzSource : Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.53, New Directions Publishing
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To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
-- Foxy BrownSource : Song: Ill Na Na, Album: Ill Na Na, 1996
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I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.
-- Gloria Whelan -
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards. Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off?
-- Kenneth Grahame -
If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
-- Mark Twain -
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I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.
-- Moby -
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.
-- Nora Roberts -
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.
-- Ralph Harper -
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How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
-- Rudyard Kipling -
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.
-- Theodore Roethke -
Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
-- Truman Capote -
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Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.
-- Washington Allston -
One of these days I'm going to say the wrong thing to the wrong mage, and I'll be spending the rest of my days searching for Mrs Right Toad.
-- Elf Sternberg -
The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.
-- Mobutu Sese Seko