Frogs famous quotes

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Accomplishment #Tables #Frogs

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Tadpoles #Frogs #Poet

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

#Home #Cake #Frogs

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.
-- Art Donovan

#Men #Nfl #Frogs

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
-- Arthur Quinn

#Style #Frogs #Language

Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
-- Barry Cryer

#Laughing #Frogs #Comedy

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.
-- Bob Weir

#Fun #Glasses #Frogs

You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
-- Brian Tracy

#Tadpoles #Ponds #Frogs

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
-- Brian Tracy

#Inspirational #Frogs #Firsts

If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
-- Brian Tracy

#Two #Frogs #Firsts

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Eels #Pie #Frogs

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Moon #Frogs #Golden

A frog in a well does not know the great sea.
-- Chris Bradford

#Sea #Doe #Frogs

Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!
-- Christopher Smart

#Frogs #Digestion

How does one conquer fear, Don B.?" "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe," he said. "The left or the right?" Don B. gave me a pitying look. "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe.
-- Donald Barthelme

#Shoes #Frogs #Doe

If frogs could fly - well, we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?
-- Drew Carey

#Miracle #Frogs #Neat

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
-- Eric Berne

#Frogs #Birth #Born

Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.
-- Fred Allen

#Paris #Legs #Frogs

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.
-- James McBride

#Jesus #Men #Frogs

Frog catching is the most fun a human being can have while on this earth.
-- Jase Robertson

#Fun #Earth #Frogs

Theories pass. The frog remains.
-- Jean Rostand

#Frogs #Theory #Remains

The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
-- Jean Rostand

#Frogs #Biologist

Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
-- Jean Rostand

#Frogs #Facts #Grenouille

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Nice #Climate #Frogs

So I know you must have a plan and this wolf—" "Beast," Min said. "—frog, whatever, can't fit your plan." "He's not a frog," Min said. "I kissed him and he did not turn into a prince."He turned into a god. No, he didn't . "Look, I'm never going to see him again, so everybody can relax.
-- Jennifer Crusie

#Relax #Frogs #Looks

no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said. "Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said. "Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.
-- Jennifer Crusie

#Believe #Kissing #Frogs

If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.
-- Jerry Juhl

#Basketball #Team #Frogs

Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.
-- Jim Benton

#Kissing #Frogs #Waste

Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.
-- Joaquin Phoenix

#Hair #Brain #Frogs

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.
-- Judith McNaught

#Hands #Frogs #Fit

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
-- Les Claypool

#Names #Frogs #Imagery

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.
-- Loren Eiseley

#Civilization #Tree #Frogs

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.
-- Mark Twain

#Frogs #Explaining #Ends

I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.
-- Martha Grimes

#Memories #Frogs #Throat

Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.
-- Mary Butts

#Frogs #Cups #Pearls

I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.
-- Mary Lasker

#Cutting #People #Frogs

Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.
-- Matsuo Basho

#Ponds #Frogs

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.
-- Matsuo Basho

#Water #Silence #Frogs

Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.
-- Matsuo Basho

#Ponds #Frogs #Leap

At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water
-- Matsuo Basho

#Water #Frogs #Sound

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
-- Matsuo Basho

#Dark #Frogs #Unexpected

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.
-- Matsuo Basho

#Water #Frogs #Sound

Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Kings #Law #Frogs

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.
-- Moby

#Stupid #Toads #Frogs

I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Dream #Frogs #Garbage

Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.” “I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Talking #Parent #Frogs

Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.
-- Paul Ehrenfest

#Mind #Frogs #Bears

A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Gold #Frogs #Puddles

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
-- S. E. Hinton

#School #Might #Frogs

We be tight like frogs ass.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Friendship #Frogs #Ass

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
-- Toni Braxton

#Trying #Frogs #Tadpoles

The other raised his club and attacked L, who inexpliciably fell over on his back like an overturned frog.
-- Tsugumi Ohba

#Frogs #Clubs #Raised

Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
-- Wayne White

#Cowboy #Bulls #Frogs

Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.
-- Young-Ha Kim

#Water #Swim #Frogs

Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.
-- Ashton Irwin

#Underwear #Green #Frogs

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin
-- Donnie McClurkin

#Ponds #Frogs #Praise

When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.
-- Beth Orton

#Ponds #Frogs #Hours

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
-- Bion of Borysthenes

#Boys #Rocks #Frogs

... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.
-- Bliss Perry

#Ideas #Might #Frogs

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!
-- Ron Carlson

#School #Frogs #Taught

It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.
-- Ron Carlson

#College #Taught Us #Frogs

I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many.
-- Satoshi Tajiri

#Cat #Names #Frogs

Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.
-- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#Smart #Frogs #Bugs