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Toadstools Quotes

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Katherine Mansfield
Love, Mushrooms, Toadstools
Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1032, Delphi Classics

I've never trusted toadstools, but I suppose some must have their good points.

Cheshire Cat
Toadstools, Never Trust, Trusted
"Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Caleb Colton
Mind, Toadstools, Insult

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Mark Twain
Food, Thinking, Toadstools
Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.30, Xist Publishing

Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.

Mark Dunn
Trying, Toadstools, Habit

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, America, Toadstools
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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