Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"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."
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Toads
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Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?"
Truman Capote
Author, Journalist
"Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad."
Delmore Schwartz
Poet
"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."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"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."
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"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."
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"A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing"
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"A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers."
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"Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life."
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"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."
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"Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him."
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"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."
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"You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him."
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