C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie."
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Frogs
96 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Zhuangzi
Philosopher
"A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it."
Matsuo Basho
Poet
"Old pond, frog jumps in - plop."
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green."
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"Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure."
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"Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one."
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"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."
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"We be tight like frogs ass."
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"Old pond, leap-splash - a frog."
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"He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling."
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"There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It's just not the same thing."
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"Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first."
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"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."
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"If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."
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"There is an intelligent way to eat a live frog - I just don't know what it is."
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"What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?"
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"Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies."
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"Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?"
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"If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long."
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"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."
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"POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog."
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"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."
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"What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?"
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"Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say."
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