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Letter "T" » toads
«Driving round a bend and skidding on a mat of dead toads is very unpleasant for all concerned.»
Author: Amanda Hillier
| Keywords:
bend, concerned, driving, round, skid, skidding, skids, toads, unpleasant
«Our evenings won't be the same without a bucket of toads to carry.»
«Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.»
Author: Marianne Moore
(Poet)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Poetry
| Keywords:
Art of, creating, gardens, imaginary, imaginary being, poetry, the art, toads
«Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on»
«POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific --and without science we are as the snakes and toads.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
all ages, beverage, beverages, liquid, natural science, palatable, potable, preservative, preservatives, recurrent, snakes, suitable, toads, uncivilized, unscientific
«GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.Habeam, geographer of wide reknown, Native of Abu-Keber's ancient town, In passing thence along the river Zam To the adjacent village of Xelam, Bewildered by the multitude of roads, Got lost, lived long on migratory toads, Then from exposure miserably died, And grateful travelers bewailed their guide. --Henry Haukhorn»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ABU, adjacent, bewailed, bewildered, geographer, geographers, Henry, in passing, migratory, miserably, off-hand, offhand, roads, toads
«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.»
«If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.»
«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.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
coal, complained, disposition, find fault, prehistoric, toads
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