Frogs Quotes - Page 6

• In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

  Jean Reno

  America, Battle, Cinema

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• Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to honor their deity, we'd have a commemorative postage stamp ready by next December. But let a Christian mention the baby Jesus to a kindergarten class and the ACLU wants an exorcism.

  Kathleen Parker

  Christian, Baby, Religious

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• 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

  College, Taught Us, Fairy Tale

  Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts® on False Teachings”, p.47, Harvest House Publishers

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

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Firsts, Ifs

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• Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Butterfly, Men

  Title of poem (1923)

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• 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

  Believe, Safety, Bird

  Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”

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• A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Summer, Ocean, Ice

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• I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

  S. E. Hinton

  School, Might, Oh Well

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• 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

  Eye, Snow, Green

  "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1990.

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• 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

  Sleep, Eye, Curves

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• 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

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.4, UNM Press

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• The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, "Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

  Anthony de Mello

  Ocean, People, Divine

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.105, Image

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

  Matsuo Basho

  Water, Silence, Ponds

  "The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches". Book by Matsuo Bashō, 1966.

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• Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

  Matsuo Basho

  Ponds, Leap

  Matsuo Basho, “The Old Pond”

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• At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water

  Matsuo Basho

  Water, Sound, Ponds

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• "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

  Shoes, Doe, Looks

  "The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1992.

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• 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

  Cutting, Guy, Intellectual

  "Sleeper". www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.

  Kevin Myers

  Hollywood, Mutation, Popcorn

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• people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Sex, People

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• Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

  George Herbert

  Gossip

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.328

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• The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

  Jean Rostand

  Biologist

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• 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

  Stupid, Toxins, Toads

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Battle, Mice

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• Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

  Peter Drucker

  Eggs, Ideas, Thousand

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• Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Business, Learning, Ambition

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions

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