The Frogs Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Gratitude and obedience. At The Frogs, the relationship between a knight and the people was clearly understood.

Neal Stephenson

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Satoshi Tajiri

#11. The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

James Lee Burke

#12. The slaves of paltriness, the frogs in life's swamp, will naturally cry out, "Such a love is foolishness. The rich brewer's widow is a match fully as good and respectable." Let them croak.

Soren Kierkegaard

#13. The 'incredible frog hotel' - really a local bed and breakfast - ... the frogs stay (in their tanks) in a block of rented rooms.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#14. 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

#15. If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Knight

#16. The Boys and the Frogs SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.

Aesop

#17. Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don't kick you around.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#18. If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb.

Kabir

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

Fred Allen

#20. As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Joanna Russ

#21. Dawn

5am: the frogs
ask what is it, what is it?
It is what it is.

Campbell McGrath

#22. It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me ... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.

Sam Kutesa

#23. The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Wilfred Bion

#24. My momma used to say that a girl had to find her prince after wading through the frogs.

Shelly Crane

#25. I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

Cliff Martinez

#26. Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#27. The Bostonians are very well in their way. Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. Their Common is no common thing - and the duck pond might answer - if its answer could be heard for the frogs.

Edgar Allan Poe

#28. 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

#29. 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

#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. 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

#32. Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.

Joaquin Phoenix

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

Mason Cooley

#36. A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

Zhuangzi

#37. Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.

Mary Butts

#38. We be tight like frogs ass.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

Brian Tracy

#42. 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

#43. If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.

Jerry Juhl

#44. If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

Brian Tracy

#45. 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

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

Matsuo Basho

#47. Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

Arthur Quinn

#48. The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This

Brian Tracy

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

Carl Sandburg

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

Art Donovan

#56. 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

#57. I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms ...

Sam The Sham

#58. Eat your frogs first thing in the morning.

Daphne Gray-Grant

#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. frogs are made of the same 'goup' as rocks, only in different arrangements. So

Richard Feynman

#62. Frogs. We all want their long tongues and jumping power, but aspiring superheroes rarely consider the benefits of growing up as sperm.

Bauvard

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

James McBride

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. When I drove for British teams ... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

#67. 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

#68. We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Eric Berne

#69. Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the program, complained that trying to organize them was 'like weighing frogs

Malala Yousafzai

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

Eban Goodstein

#78. Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

Barry Cryer

#79. The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row pays attention. Cutting dead frogs is cool.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#80. You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock's. Saliva. There's DNA in saliva. You're like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks

Laini Taylor

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

Patricia Briggs

#82. Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#83. the counters and center island were crammed with mason jars and novelty saltshakers and cookie jars in the shapes of cats, blimps, pumpkins, frogs, robots, potbellied demons, and other things.

Tim Pratt

#84. My girl, always hated frogs," Jackie stated when she'd controlled her hilarity.
"That's right, Mom," Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, "I'm a girl therefore I hate frogs. I'd get kicked out of the girl club if I didn't.

Kristen Ashley

#85. He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.

Terry Pratchett

#86. Come come! Come Out!
From bogs old frogs command the dark
and look...the stars

Kikaku

#87. O, Senator, drop your trousers! Loosen your cravat! Eschew your spats and step into that shallow, teeming world of mayflies and dragonflies and frogs' eyes staring eye-to-eye with your own, and the silty bottom. Cease your filibuster against the world God gave you.

Paul Harding

#88. And all those frogs going 'Rabbit, rabbit' ... "
"I think, sir, that it was 'Ribbit, ribbit' ... "
"So, what goes 'Rabbit, rabbit'?"
"Rabbits, I think. All the time ...

Terry Pratchett

#89. One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

G. Tyler Miller

#90. 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

#91. The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

Jean Rostand

#92. Jumping Rabbits played against Stinky Frogs and the winner took on Purple Rats immediately after. Blazing Night had constructed ...

J.M.K. Walkow

#93. The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

Robert Jordan

#94. If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

Nalini Nadkarni

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

Terry Pratchett

#98. I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)

Frans De Waal

#99. As presumptive heir to one of the largest Duchies in the Kingdom of the Mists, she could have easily grown up more spoiled than any human princess. Instead she grew into the sort of little girl who's always up a tree or down a hole, a magnet for mud, queen of worms and frogs and crawling things.

Seanan McGuire

#100. You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.

Moby