Toad Quotes

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, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. (Ambrose Bierce)
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. View quote
William Shakespeare
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life. View quote
Chinua Achebe
The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go! View quote
Kenneth Grahame
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
My first character was Mr. Toad. View quote
Bill Griffith
The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad. View quote
Mobutu Sésé Seko
Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad. View quote
Stephen Crane
The world has held great Heroes, As history books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame Compared with that of Toad! View quote
Kenneth Grahame
He was indeed an altered Toad! (Kenneth Grahame)
Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Toad saw that he was trapped. They understood him, they saw through him, they had got ahead of him. His pleasant dream was shattered. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
'No, not one little song,' replied the Rat firmly, though his heart bled as he noticed the trembling lip of the poor disappointed Toad. 'It's no good, Toady; you know well that your songs are all conceit and boasting and vanity; and your speeches are all self-praise and - and - well, and gross exaggeration and - and - ' 'And gas,' put in the Badger, in his common way. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
I'm such a clever Toad. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
There's a killer on the road His brain is squirming like a toad. View quote
Jim Morrison
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. View quote
Terry Pratchett
When he saw Tiny, he was delighted, and thought her the prettiest little maiden he had ever seen. He took the gold crown from his head, and placed it on hers, and asked her name, and if she would be his wife, and queen over all the flowers. This certainly was a very different sort of husband to the son of a toad, or the mole, with my black velvet and fur; so she said, "Yes," to the handsome prince. Then all the flowers opened, and out of each came a little lady or a tiny lord, all so pretty it was quite a pleasure to look at them. Each of them brought Tiny a present; but the best gift was a pair of beautiful wings, which had belonged to a large white fly and they fastened them to Tiny's shoulders, so that she might fly from flower to flower. View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
The golden toad was the first documented victim of global warming. We had killed it with our profligate use of coal-fired electricity and our oversize cars just as surely as if we had flattened its forest with bulldozers. It was as if, having experienced it, we did not recognize what happiness was. (Tim Flannery)
The toad, without which no garden would be complete. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
It was a scream straight from the toad buried at the base of the brain, that ancient reptile that wants everything at once, delivered to its feet and set ablaze. View quote
Michael Swanwick
You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. View quote
Christine Feehan
Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad. View quote
Truman Capote