Top 100 A Frog Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog.
Ina Caro
#3. Morgause laughed as she mounted her horse with some help from a footman. "I see through your protests, Merlin. You are quite amorous of me, I know it." Merlin looked like he swallowed a frog. "Lady," he said. "Wise, old lady. Please depart lest I be forced to help you depart.
K.M. Shea
#4. how you would feel if your old girlfriend showed up and she had the IQ of a frog. You'd
Bobby Adair
#5. 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
#6. A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
Mason Cooley
#7. Height of bad luck will be ... when I will dare to kiss a prince and he will turn into a frog.
Upasana Banerjee
#8. Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies.
Alan Ford
#9. I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.
Stephen Fry
#10. To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."
Rumi
#11. Coraline also explored for animals. She found a hedgehog, and a snakeskin )but no snake), and a rock that looked just like a frog, and a toad that looked just like a rock.
Neil Gaiman
#12. Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
Mason Cooley
#14. A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
Zhuangzi
#15. In the story of the prince and the frog, there's always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.
Anne Rice
#16. On the way home I remembered a bit of old folklore about how to boil a frog. You put it in cold water, then start turning up the heat. If you do it gradually, the frog is too stupid to jump out. I don't know if it's true or not, but I decided it was an excellent metaphor for growing old.
Stephen King
#17. I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
Toni Braxton
#18. Two conspirators with a frog, following the line of a whiffletree.
Witold Gombrowicz
#19. If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark Twain
#20. Then you obviously cannot see yourself right now, you lackadaisical boggart!' Luna puffed up like a frog...
T.T. Faulkner
#21. 'You do know what magic is, don't you?'
Magic's when you close your eyes, make a wish, and it comes true.'
'No, that's coincidence.'
Magic's when a princess kisses a frog and it turns into a prince.'
'No, that's evolution.'
Isabelle scratched her neck. 'Well, then, what is magic?
Suzanne Selfors
#22. Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.
Matsuo Basho
#23. Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
Arthur Quinn
#24. Frog who wants to be a king of the lake by terrorizing other frogs is not a frog but a scorpion or a snake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. It was like cooking a frog, he thought. You put the frog in the water, and then you turn on the heat. And by the time the frog notices that there's anything wrong, it's already been cooked. The world in which he worked was all too weird.
Neil Gaiman
#26. The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time ...
Swami Vivekananda
#27. They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
Dan Rather
#28. If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.
Jim Henson
#29. If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.
Stephenie Meyer
#30. A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.
Faina Ranevskaya
#31. He had a face that reminded me of a frog, not a bullfrog but just any frog, and Paris was too big a puddle for him.
Ernest Hemingway,
#32. And if you hear a frog jump into the pond with a flounce like a stone thrown in, be sure you run and tell me, because it is a sign of rain.
Thomas Hardy
#34. I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
S.E. Hinton
#35. Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.
Norman Spinrad
#36. I would have sworn fairies were too big to fit into a frog's mouth.
Kim Harrison
#37. Everyone in the class turned. On one of the tables, a frog had started to smoke, and the limbs were twitching spasmodically. Dr. Herbert rushed over, clapping his hands. "It's alive!" he cried.
Daryl Gregory
#39. Holy flippindip! It's colder than a frog's ass in January!
Jamie McGuire
#40. You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Bill Vaughan
#41. Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.
Ashton Irwin
#42. The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#43. The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.
James McBride
#44. Not a frog, I hope?" he asked ... She shook her head. "No. And if it was I wouldn't kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he'd turn into a frog, but not the other way around.
Eva Ibbotson
#45. When I drove for British teams ... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
Alain Prost
#46. Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. I don't want to brag, but if I go through this, and I go back to camp, I'll have something unique to talk about. I can be like, 'Hey, not only am I not a virgin, I lost my virginity to a frog-headed exotic dancer.' Will that be something to brag about or something to be ashamed of?
Ned Vizzini
#48. Harry looked at the frog and then at Song Lee. "I'm in love," he whispered. "With a frog?" I replied. "No! With her.
Suzy Kline
#49. Wasn't there some belief about how if you drop a frog into boiling water, it will jump right out? But if you put it in cold water and turn up the heat gradually, it will allow itself to slowly cook to death?
Lisa Unger
#50. Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures." As
Lisa Kleypas
#51. Gilbert tried to reason with the smoke hound. "I am a frog," he explained. "You are a puff of black smoke shaped like a dog. We are not related.
Adam Jay Epstein
#52. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E.B. White
#53. These people are like ... a frog living in a well, who has never seen the outside world. He knows only his well, so he will not believe that there is such a thing as the world. Likewise, people talk so much about the world because they have not known the joy of God.
Ramakrishna
#54. This is a great turtle, Katie." "James." Millie brings the waffles to the table. "Are you blind?" Yeah, you tell him, Millie. Some people just can't appreciate good art. Millie holds her folded napkin up proudly. "It's a frog." True artists (like Picasso or me) are always misunderstood.
Jenny B. Jones
#55. A local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.
Honor Tracy
#56. Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.
E.B. White
#57. Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
Wayne White
#58. Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
Barry Cryer
#59. I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there 's a pair of us - don't tell!
They 'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson
#60. A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
#61. You jumped like a frog.
You touched like a dog.
You kissed like a bird.
Santosh Kalwar
#62. Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!
R.A. Salvatore
#63. I've kissed a prince, Mom. I hope it doesn't turn into a frog.
E.L. James
#64. Upon my return I found the call in my box. It was Anne's number, then Anne's voice on the wire, and, as always, the little leap and plunk in my heart like a frog jumping into a lily pool. With the ripples spreading round.
Robert Penn Warren
#65. There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog.
Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk.
Edward Abbey
#66. I always thought the girl in that picture had the look of a frog about her," Nancy said, thinking, I look enigmatic because I'm dying. "Isn't
Kate Atkinson
#67. (The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)
Nancy B. Brewer
#68. Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy ... A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
Alan Beck
#69. Something tells me this isn't going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet." And that was the good news.
Deborah Blake
#70. A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
Publilius Syrus
#71. Judith, you sound
horrible. What's the matter with your voice? Are you coming down with something?"
Judith shook her head. "I'm all right."
"You sound like you swallowed a frog.
Julie Garwood
#72. When the fair gold morning of April stirred Mary Hawley awake, she turned over to her husband and saw him, little fingers pulling a frog mouth at her.
John Steinbeck
#73. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you know how easy it is.
Terry Pratchett
#74. Even the most innocent of men's affairs seem doomed to cause suffering. Pushing the lawnmower through tall wet grass, and enjoying the strong aroma of the morning, I found that the blades had cut a frog in half. I have not forgotten his eyes.
Christopher Morley
#75. The only thing that held it together the previous summer was baling wire, cheap used parts, and cussin' that would fry the hair out of a frog's nostrils.
Carolyn Brown
#76. Mother Goose!
I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a frog's fundament for them when they come from an adult.
Alan Bradley
#78. Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E.B. White
#79. If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.
John Niven
#80. I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.
E.D. Baker
#81. If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
Mark Twain
#82. 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
#83. Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human-being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant. Many a one is a human-being above and a fish below.
Hermann Hesse
#84. I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.
Cassandra Clare
#85. If you have to live in the mud for a while, you must not resist being a frog for a while!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. 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
#87. As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
Paul Schullery
#88. Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.
Margaret Atwood
#89. How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.
Robyn Schneider
#90. (Looking at their son on ultrasound.)
He looks like an angel. (Cassandra)
I don't know. I think he looks like a frog or something. (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#91. no one could ever put a splint on a frog's leg
Jose Saramago
#92. I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while.
Jason Aaron
#93. I thought of how life had been before I realized I was a frog in a pot
Stephen King
#94. Oh, for crying out loud, it's because you're so uptight and self-righteous. Somebody said your ass was probably as watertight as a frog, and next thing you know they were calling you Kermit.
Mitty Walters
#95. Darling, you know what they say. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince."
I give her a lopsided, bittersweet smile.
"I think I've kissed a prince, Mom. I hope he doesn't turn into a frog.
E.L. James
#96. Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.
Will Cuppy
#97. College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come.
We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.
Dan Rather
#98. If a frog is placed into a pot of boiling water it will immediately try to jump out; but if it's placed into a pot of cool water that's gradually heated until boiling, it will stay put and never try to jump out.
Richard Beckham II
#99. I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.
Haruki Murakami
#100. Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
Mark Twain
