Toads Quotes

• La poesía es el arte de crear jardines imaginarios con sapos reales.

  Marianne Moore

  Inspiración, Vida, Arte

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• 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

  Animal, Garden, Hospitality

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• 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

  Might, Duty, Ifs

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• Dulces son los usos de la adversidad que, como el sapo, feo y venenoso, lleva sin embargo una joya preciosa en la cabeza.

  William Shakespeare

  Dulce, Adversidad, Joyas

  As You Like It' (1599) acto 2, esc. 1, l. 12

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• To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

  Voltaire

  Beauty, Eye, Yellow

  "Voltaire's Alphabet of wit".

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• Siempre que vea un sapo saltando a plena luz del día, sepa que algo persigue su vida.

  Chinua Achebe

  Jumping, Daylight, Broads

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.143, Heinemann

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• Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Funny, Morning, Time

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• Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

  Voltaire

  Beauty, Eye, Two

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• La música de todas las criaturas tiene que ver con sus amores, incluso la de los sapos y las ranas. ¿No ocurre lo mismo con el hombre?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Men, Frogs

  Henry David Thoreau, Abigail Rorer (2010). “Of Woodland Pools, Spring-holes & Ditches: Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau Wherein He Observes and Reflects Upon the Nature of Life and Vernal Pools”, p.60, Counterpoint Press

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• Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mom, Country, Laughter

  Shel Silverstein, “Ticklish Tom”

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• Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.

  Karl Pilkington

  Xfm, November 2, 2002.

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• Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

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• Una observación atenta de la Naturaleza nos revelará complacencias de una ironía soberbia. Por ejemplo, ha colocado sapos cerca de las flores.

  Honore de Balzac

  Nature, Flower, Irony

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• Sapo hablaba a lo grande de todo lo que iba a hacer en los días venideros, mientras las estrellas crecían más y más a su alrededor, y una luna amarilla, que aparecía de repente y en silencio de ninguna parte en particular, venía a hacerles compañía y a escuchar su charla.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Estrellas, Luna, Amarillo

  Kenneth Grahame (1914). "El viento en los sauces", p.17, Hayes Barton Press

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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, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Science, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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• Para encontrar un príncipe, hay que besar algunos sapos.

  Marrón Foxy

  Cute Relationship, Kissing, Dating

  Canción: Ill Na Na, Álbum: Ill Na Na, 1996

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• By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Past, Agony

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms”

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• Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Weed, Flower, Ignorance

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). "Reflexiones posteriores"

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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

  Cute, Plight, Made

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.285, Ballantine Books

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• The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.

  Tom Robbins

  Breakup, Passion, Eye

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.161, Bantam

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• 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.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Thinking, Wicked

  Stephen Crane, “Think As I Think”

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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 with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Coal

  Pudd'nhead Wilson cap. 9, "El calendario de Pudd'nhead Wilson" (1894)

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• 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

  Adventure, Might, Spirit

  Kenneth Grahame, Scott McKowen (2005). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.171, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• 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

  Eagles, Spit, Chiefs

  "The Fate of Africa". Book by Martin Meredith (p. 525), October 1991.

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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 forgiven.

  Antón Chéjov

  People, Tarantulas, Talent

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.44, e-artnow

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