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toad

«The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr Toad.»
Author: Kenneth Graham | Keywords: know-all, One half, oxford, toad
«Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.»
«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 a la financiere_ is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.»
«To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted back»
«Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head»
«I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses»