"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."
"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."
"What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?"
"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."
"The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining."
"Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke."
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result."
"Rachel, Rachel, Rachel,” he said, very still and unmoving. “Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You’re like a frog, you know."
"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."
"Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!"