Top 100 A Frog Quotes
#1. Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog.
Ina Caro
#2. Princess, princess, youngest daughter,
Open up and let me in!
Or else your promise by the water
Isn't worth a rusty pin.
Keep your promise, royal daughter,
Open up and let me in!
Philip Pullman
#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. Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies.
Alan Ford
#6. Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.
Joaquin Phoenix
#7. 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
#8. Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
Mason Cooley
#9. Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!
Charles Dickens
#10. In the story of the prince and the frog, there's always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.
Anne Rice
#11. Let me guess," the frog interrupted,"Like every other human explored I've even met, you want to know the meaning of life."
"I didn't-"
"The answer's forty-four. The machine was off by two" the frog snapped, "Believe me, it makes a world of difference...
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
#12. Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.
Stephen Fry
#13. Two conspirators with a frog, following the line of a whiffletree.
Witold Gombrowicz
#14. As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.
John Gurdon
#15. Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.
Matsuo Basho
#16. It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror.
Thomas Pynchon
#21. It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#22. In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God.
Gao Xingjian
#23. 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,
#26. You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Bill Vaughan
#27. Absolutely. I understand that Miss Piggy is willing to serve as Queen of Scotland if there is a split. So you may want to guard your castles.
Kermit the frog's response to the question on if he agreed with David Bowie on whether Scotland should remain as part of Britain
Kermit The Frog
#28. Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animated the body, has long since left. It does nothing for the art.
Kevin Wilson
#29. Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Mark Twain
#30. Q: There's this talking frog that says he's a prince. What are the repercussions of cooking it for dinner?
A: There are none. Make sure you bread the whole frog evenly.
Seanan McGuire
#31. Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#32. London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. 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
#34. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E.B. White
#35. I have a black look I do not
like. It is a mask I try on.
I migrate toward it and its frog
sits on my lips and defecates.
Anne Sexton
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
Barry Cryer
#39. My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.
Brie Larson
#40. Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer led to anything, and Leigh-Cheri eventually named it Prince Charming after that son-of-a-bitch who never comes though.
Tom Robbins
#41. 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
#42. Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. You jumped like a frog.
You touched like a dog.
You kissed like a bird.
Santosh Kalwar
#44. 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
#45. I've kissed a prince, Mom. I hope it doesn't turn into a frog.
E.L. James
#46. 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
#47. The 'incredible frog hotel' - really a local bed and breakfast - ... the frogs stay (in their tanks) in a block of rented rooms.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#48. 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
#49. Frog speaks in a "Ye Olde Englishy" dialogue that is as charming as it is grammatically suspect. No one else in 600 AD talks like Frog. Not even Glenn, the boy Frog used to be.
Michael P. Williams
#50. 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
#51. A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
Publilius Syrus
#52. I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.
Bret McKenzie
#53. Every day some scientist discovered a new species of frog or waterlily, and that, too, seemed to confirm some divine showman, some celestial inventor putting new toys before us, hidden but hidden poorly, just where we might happen upon them.
Dave Eggers
#54. No, Carolyn, you can't petition PETA to get a waiver from dissecting the frog. The frog's already dead. It donated itself to science. Don't let its sacrifice be in vain. -Brandon
Abigail Roux
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
Haruki Murakami
#59. I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.
E.D. Baker
#60. In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle.
John Steinbeck
#61. 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
#62. If you have to live in the mud for a while, you must not resist being a frog for a while!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. 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
#64. Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.
Peter Drucker
#65. 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
#66. (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
#67. I thought of how life had been before I realized I was a frog in a pot
Stephen King
#68. A lot of people have used the frog splash over the years. Every one else that used it is a four star frog splash, when RVD did it, it became a five star frog splash.
CM Punk
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.
Tom Robbins
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.
David Klass
#76. The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.
Matsuo Basho
#77. 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
#78. I know, " she said, flatly. "Antimei warned me that you would 'transform' me. I was hoping it would be into a frog, or a racquiel, or perhaps a bear -- I've always wanted to be a bear! Not a 'proper young lady'!" she said, bitterly.
Terry Mancour
#79. Rachel, Rachel, Rachel," he said, very still and unmoving. "Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You're like a frog, you know.
Kim Harrison
#80. 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
#81. Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.
Kim Young-ha
#82. A wise Chinese saying--'A frog at the bottom of a well has a limited view of the sky.
Dave And Neta Jackson
#84. There is an intelligent way to eat a live frog - I just don't know what it is.
Sun Tzu
#85. Hi there," he said. "I hear you need to see a man about a frog.
Tim Pratt
#86. I'm like a tree frog when it comes to birthdays. Basically, my thoughts on birthdays can be summed up in two words: tree and frog.
Jarod Kintz
#87. Now that we've entered the wave of extinction let's sing while we still can ... Quick, climb onto my back and cry wreck it wreck it like a frog in the grip of ecstatic amplexus
Lucia Perillo
#88. Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, but if he doesn't, you won't be fooled by some wishful illusion in your head.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. Papa, ain't it a caution that we can only eat two legs off a frog, 'stead of four."
And he said: "Rob, here's what you do. You catch a real big bullfrog and make friends with him. And teach him to jump backwards. That'll make his front legs big as the hind.
Robert Newton Peck
#90. You can't make a frog richer who already have a great sun and have a pretty lake with green leaves, insects and flowers! He is already the richest of the richest!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.
Deb Caletti
#92. Why did you live so long in the swamp that you yourself had to become a frog and a toad?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.
Gail Honeyman
#94. That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog.
Karl Pilkington
#95. If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!
Zig Ziglar
#96. Just because a frog says he's a prince doesn't mean you should kiss him. For all you know he's one of the arrogant, worthless princes who might better serve society as a pair of buttered legs on someone's plate.
Julie Wright
#97. Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.
Alex Flinn
#98. Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts."
Stephen Potter
#99. I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
Cameron Diaz
#100. Rabbits lost their temper and one jumped on a Frog's head and smashed it against the grass.
J.M.K. Walkow
