Top 100 Quotes About Frogs
#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. I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
Ted Turner
#3. 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
#4. as many as one billion frogs are harvested for consumption in Indonesia and China each year.
Nicholas Belardes
#5. A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
Mason Cooley
#6. There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#8. Old dark sleepy pool ... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
Matsuo Basho
#9. Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that's who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
Alice Sebold
#10. Lord Edward took a scientific interest in the sexual activities of axolotls and chickens, guinea pigs and frogs; but any reference to the corresponding activities of humans made him painfully uncomfortable.
Aldous Huxley
#12. Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.
Joaquin Phoenix
#13. Seriously, though, in this day and age I don't know why we're still cutting open frogs to see what's inside them.
If somebody tells me there's a heart and intestines inside a grog, I'm willing to take their word for it.
Jeff Kinney
#14. Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.
Woody Allen
#15. Well, Louie, you'll know then that Leviticus also tells us not to cut our beards, not to wear linen and wool together nor to eat crayfish or frogs or snails. I'm afraid that if we adhered to Leviticus the entire French nation would be an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
Paula Boock
#16. 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
#17. Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
Mason Cooley
#18. Gratitude and obedience. At The Frogs, the relationship between a knight and the people was clearly understood.
Neal Stephenson
#19. A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
Zhuangzi
#20. Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.
Mary Butts
#22. That is the way it is done, the way it has always been done. Frogs have every right to expect it will always be done that way.
John Steinbeck
#23. Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.
Garrison Keillor
#25. I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.
Sandi Toksvig
#26. Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
Brian Tracy
#27. 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
#28. We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.
Nizar Qabbani
#29. 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
#30. It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin
#31. If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.
Jerry Juhl
#32. If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
Brian Tracy
#33. Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
Laura Prepon
#34. You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.
Arnold Lobel
#35. If all it took to become enlightened were to sit and meditate, then all frogs would be Buddhas.
Sengai
#36. There are - any independent study, from any scientist that's not funded by Syngenta, has found similar problems with atrazine, not just my work on frogs.
Tyrone Hayes
#37. What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?
Chief Seattle
#38. Hope was like frogs praying for wings so they didn't bump their asses when they hopped. But there weren't any flying fucking frogs!
Sherri Desbois
#39. They looked like frogs who'd been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs.
Lorrie Moore
#40. Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.
Matsuo Basho
#41. Don't cry, Princess. You know what they say. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet your prince.
Nyrae Dawn
#42. Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
Arthur Quinn
#43. The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This
Brian Tracy
#44. I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
Richard Dawkins
#45. 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
#46. He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?
I blow my nose. take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern, frogs is what they stay.
Alice Walker
#47. Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!
Christopher Smart
#48. POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
Carl Sandburg
#49. If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.
Brian Tracy
#50. It was destined to be the most impressive kiss in the history of foreplay. The kiss lasted more than fifteen years. Not even frogs can manage that.
Terry Pratchett
#52. A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.
Faina Ranevskaya
#53. I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
William Butler Yeats
#54. We shall pick up an existence by its frogs.
Charles Fort
#55. I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms ...
Sam The Sham
#58. I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.
William Joyce
#59. Frog catching is the most fun a human being can have while on this earth.
Jase Robertson
#60. You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Bill Vaughan
#61. 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
#62. Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons, too.
Terry Pratchett
#63. The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the treas and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#64. It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#65. frogs are made of the same 'goup' as rocks, only in different arrangements. So
Richard Feynman
#66. Frogs. We all want their long tongues and jumping power, but aspiring superheroes rarely consider the benefits of growing up as sperm.
Bauvard
#67. Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.
Ashton Irwin
#68. The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.
James McBride
#69. Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together.
Libba Bray
#70. The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
Martin Luther
#71. Sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.
Bianca Frazier
#72. The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet.
They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.
Philip K. Dick
#73. If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
Terry Pratchett
#74. When I drove for British teams ... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
Alain Prost
#75. Figure 14: Garter snakes hunt during the day and sleep at night in common dens with fellow garters. They eat anything they can overpower, including small rodents, birds, earthworms, and frogs.
Janet Evans
#76. Winter will pass, the days will lengthen, the ice will melt in the pasture pond. The song sparrow will return and sing, the frogs will awake, the warm wind will blow again. All these sights and sounds and smells will be yours to enjoy, Wilbur - this lovely world, these precious days ...
E.B. White
#77. We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Eric Berne
#78. Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the program, complained that trying to organize them was 'like weighing frogs
Malala Yousafzai
#79. Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'
Barry Humphries
#80. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
Paulo Coelho
#81. I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.
Martha Grimes
#82. 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
#83. If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.
Adam Ferrara
#84. 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
#85. I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.
Lorine Niedecker
#86. If frogs could fly - well, we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?
Drew Carey
#87. For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.
John Gurdon
#88. There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas - something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.
Jerome K. Jerome
#89. I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many.
Satoshi Tajiri
#90. You don't have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one.
-Henrietta Barrett, (Minx, Splendid Trilogy book #3)
Julia Quinn
#91. Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#92. There's a lot of frogs to kiss before you realize they're all frogs.
Kelly Moran
#93. He tells them that there is a line that separates killing bugs from killing frogs, and that no matter how hard it is, that line must never be crossed
Etgar Keret
#94. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
Neil Gaiman
#95. 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
#96. Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi, we are all like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. No one flinches.
We all float face-down.
Brandon Boyd
#97. I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#98. Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.
E.B. White
#99. I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.
Anne Sexton
#100. I liked frogs better when they just peed in your hand and gave you warts.
Cary McNeal
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