Toads Quotes
91 quotes by 66 authors
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If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
— Dave Barry
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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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…
— Arnold Lobel
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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…
— Theodore Roethke
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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…
— Daniel Handler
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Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.
— Karl Pilkington
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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
— Chinua Achebe
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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…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.
— Dennis Miller
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If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
— John Bunyan
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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…
— Mark Twain
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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…
— Robert Penn Warren
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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…
— Anton Chekhov
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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…
— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
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The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
— Rebecca Solnit
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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…
— Celia Thaxter
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