Top 44 Frog In The Well Quotes
#1. You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
Zhuangzi
#2. Vero collapsed in a chair, overtaken with delicious giggles. The child had bought underwear to match a plastic frog. An act of perfect silliness.
Debora Geary
#3. Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!
Charles Dickens
#5. A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
Zhuangzi
#6. Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.
Mary Butts
#7. In the story of the prince and the frog, there's always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.
Anne Rice
#8. The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as ... the frog?
Joseph Heller
#10. 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
#11. It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.
Cassandra Clare
#12. Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
Mason Cooley
#13. 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
#15. Seriously," Ben said. "This guy sounds like an alcoholic Kermit the Frog with throat cancer
Anonymous
#16. I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
Toni Braxton
#17. 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
#18. You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.
Zhuangzi
#19. You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Bill Vaughan
#20. 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
#21. Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
D. B. Weiss
#23. Old dark sleepy pool ... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
Matsuo Basho
#24. Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog.
Ina Caro
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. how you would feel if your old girlfriend showed up and she had the IQ of a frog. You'd
Bobby Adair
#28. How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
Kermit The Frog
#29. Then she was terribly angry, and took him up and threw him with all her might against the wall. "Now, thou wilt be quiet, odious frog," said she.
Jacob Grimm
#30. 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
#31. A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
Mason Cooley
#32. You can propose on our honeymoon
[Miss Piggy to Kermit the Frog]
Miss Piggy
#33. My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.
Rodney Dangerfield
#34. 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
#35. Height of bad luck will be ... when I will dare to kiss a prince and he will turn into a frog.
Upasana Banerjee
#36. Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.'
-Thaddeus
Paul Collins
#37. Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies.
Alan Ford
#38. 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
#39. Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.
Joaquin Phoenix
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. EPMD in effect, I'm clockin' mad green
Like Kermit the Frog, sloppy like Boss Hog,
Girl was runnin' wild ... ate her like a corn dog.
PMD
#43. She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
Charles Dickens
#44. Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
R.K. Narayan
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