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Toads Quotes

1.
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

Authors on Toads Quotes: Chinua Achebe Kenneth Grahame Jim Butcher Yann Martel George Steinbrenner Louis-Ferdinand Celine Mahatma Gandhi Caleb Carr John Bunyan Washington Irving Gloria Whelan Christine Feehan Karl Pilkington Elf Sternberg Mary Wortley Montagu Washington Allston Bill Griffith Neil Gaiman Dave Barry Moby Theodore Roethke Henry David Thoreau Anton Chekhov Nicolas Chamfort Delmore Schwartz Mobutu Sese Seko Truman Capote Nora Roberts Arnold Lobel George R. R. Martin Celia Thaxter Honore de Balzac Rudyard Kipling
2.
Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)
Arnold Lobel

3.
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

4.
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
Chinua Achebe

5.
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?
Henry David Thoreau

6.
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

7.
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

8.
If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
Dave Barry

9.
Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
Truman Capote

10.
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

11.
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 the screechowl.
Washington Irving

12.
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 Schwartz

13.
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
John Bunyan

14.
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

15.
Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.
Karl Pilkington

16.
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

17.
A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
Chinua Achebe

18.
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

19.
Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad.
George Steinbrenner

20.
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony.
She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.
Honore de Balzac

21.
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

22.
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
Chinua Achebe

23.
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
Nicolas Chamfort

24.
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
Rudyard Kipling

25.
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
Yann Martel

26.
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
Jim Butcher

27.
You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake
Christine Feehan

28.
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

29.
My first character was Mr. Toad.
Bill Griffith

30.
Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
Neil Gaiman

31.
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
Philip Larkin

32.
Men are vile inconstant toads.
Mary Wortley Montagu

33.
I'm such a clever Toad.
Kenneth Grahame

34.
Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.
Caleb Carr

35.
You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.
George R. R. Martin

36.
He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.
Nora Roberts

37.
Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.
Mahatma Gandhi