To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads. Votes: 6
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Votes: 6
If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry. Votes: 6
Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad. Votes: 5
Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad) Votes: 4
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. Votes: 4
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. Votes: 4
The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad. Votes: 4
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! Votes: 4
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. Votes: 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. Votes: 4
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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 mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back. Votes: 4
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew... Votes: 4
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich. Votes: 4
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves. Votes: 4
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 space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic. Votes: 4
The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. Votes: 4
I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly. Votes: 4
A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men Votes: 3
A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!''The red plague rid you!''Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!''As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.''Strange stuff''Thou jesting monkey thou''Apes with foreheads villainous low''Pied ninny''Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses" Votes: 3
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. Votes: 2
If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big. Votes: 2
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. Votes: 2
Men are vile inconstant toads. Votes: 0
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town. Votes: 0
He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince. Votes: 0
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have. Votes: 0
Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another. Votes: 0
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. Votes: 0
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man? Votes: 0
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later. Votes: 0
no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said. "Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said. "Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned. Votes: 0
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.