Toads Quotes - Page 3

• A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Doe, Daytime

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.15, Heinemann

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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

  Lying, Hundred, Young

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

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• One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Weed, Dark

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• Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

  Arnold Lobel

  Book, Waiting, Feelings

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• Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

  Yann Martel

  Dancing, Trying, Fields

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Pride, Men

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.236, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suffering, Knows

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.195, Penguin Books India

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• I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Jealousy, Vapour

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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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

  Stupid, Toxins, Frogs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cities, Feet, Forests

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• In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Eggs, Nurse

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• Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.

  Celia Thaxter

  Life, Autumn, Winter

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.56, Applewood Books

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• I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.9, Penguin

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• They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

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• I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly.

  Stephen Fry

  Butterfly, Names, Brave

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• My first character was Mr. Toad.

  Bill Griffith

  Character, Firsts

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• Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gambling, Dumb, Victory

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• The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Teeth, Knows

  'Pagett, MP' (1886)

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• He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

  Dean Koontz

  August, Two, Hot

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.237, Bantam

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• RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Bankers

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• And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Directors, Actors

  "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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• [Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Integrity, Men, Soul

  "Pageant" Magazine, July 1968.

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• How did you hear about that?' 'Are you kidding me? So far, I had that runt Kyle-' 'I hate him. I hate all vamps. That complete toad, Michael-' '-tell me you were pregnant by a vamp-' 'kidnnaped me and-Kyle said WHAT?' 'and then a member of the Domi shows up and informs me-' 'The Domi sent someone HERE?' '-that you're actually pregnant by the late king of the Fey.' 'Late?!' Heidar squeaked.

  Karen Chance

  Kings, Hate, Fey

  Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.278, Penguin UK

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• I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.

  Gianfranco Zola

  Pigs, Apples, Jam

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• Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Taken, Swallowing, Taste Buds

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