Toads Quotations

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

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

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

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

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

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.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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.

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.

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 preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

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

Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad.

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

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

Who was this women?' asked Harry. 'I dunno, some Ministry hag.' Mundungus considered for a moment, brow wrinkled. 'Little women. Bow on top of er' head.' He frowned and then added, 'Looked like a toad.' Harry dropped his wand. Harry looked up and saw his own shock reflected in Ron and Hermione's faces. The scars on the back of right hand seemed to be tingling again.

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

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.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!

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.

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

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

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.

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?

I'm such a clever Toad.

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

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

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

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 its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

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.

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.

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

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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

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.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

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