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  • The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.

    School   Men   Yield  
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”
  • Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

    Toady   Firsts   Royalty  
    "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by Maurice Samuel (p. 123), 1948.
  • The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

    Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail
  • We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness. The way up our ladder is open to everybody. In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else.

  • The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.

    Successful   Body   Toady  
  • I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

    Good Man   Use   Isms  
    David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House
  • Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

    Order   President   Toady  
    Remark in the United Nations General Assembly, October 12, 1960.
  • The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist. You send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them that you're not going to buy their products anymore.

    Lying   Email   Toady  
    "Live Earth Disappoints With Everything But Shrill Rhetoric". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. July 9, 2007.
  • Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

    Thinking   Air   Water  
  • Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

    Class   People   History  
    "In the Ring" by Norman Mailer, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2008.
  • The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

    Bird   Toady   Tacky  
    Limerick written during dull meeting of Foreign Ministers. Quoted in Walter Isaac son and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).
  • All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.

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