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 Copy Share Image
One of these days I'm going to say the wrong thing to the wrong mage, and I'll be spending the rest of… — Elf Sternberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Cane toads are all over the place.' 'Are they edible?' 'Heck, no. They're poisonous.' 'That is disappointing.' Hunger gnawed at her insides.… — Cheryse Durrant Copy Share Image
[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad,… — Arnold Lobel Copy Share Image
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“The old man must have stopped our car two dozen times to climb out and gather into his hands the small toads… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Canadians and Americans may look alike, but the contents of their heads are quite different. Americans experience themselves, individually, as small toads… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“In Europe, what seems to bond toads and toadstools strongly is their shared role as potentially toxic "agents of death", and their… — Adrian Morgan Copy Share Image
I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't." "I don't understand. Why not?" "I'm not allowed… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like… — Gloria Whelan Copy Share Image
I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel!… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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