Arnold Lobel famous quotes

04-17-2025

The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!
-- Arnold Lobel

#Buttons #World #Covered
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
-- Arnold Lobel

#Book #Sky #Long
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
-- Arnold Lobel

#Children #Fun #Book
Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)
-- Arnold Lobel

#Past #Half #Toads
All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.
-- Arnold Lobel

#True Happiness #Moments #Miles
Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.
-- Arnold Lobel

#Weather #Advice
You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.
-- Arnold Lobel

#Home #Cake #Frogs
Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
-- Arnold Lobel

#Work #Flattery #Harder
Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.
-- Arnold Lobel

#Wish #Way
Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.
-- Arnold Lobel

#Simple #Observation
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.
-- Arnold Lobel

#Book #Waiting #Feelings

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