Frogs Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Tadpoles, Ponds, Enough

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat that Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Peter Drucker

  Eggs, Ideas, Thousand

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  Spiritual, Religious, Ocean

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, it jumps out. If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn the heat up slowly, you can roast it to death.

  Clive Thompson

  Funny, Animal, Appreciate

  4 Copy quote

• I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.

  Charles Handy

  Change, Water, Alive

  53 Copy quote

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

  James McBride

  Jesus, Men, Finest

  James McBride (2006). “The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.132, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jerry Juhl

  Basketball, Team, Chaos

  6 Copy quote

• Frog catching is the most fun a human being can have while on this earth.

  Jase Robertson

  Fun, Earth, Catching

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• 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”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Butterfly, Men

  Title of poem (1923)

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Firsts, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.

  Josh Duhamel

  Kids, Love Is, Space

  6 Copy quote

• I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while.

  Jason Aaron

  Horse, Thinking, Hammers

  "Marvel Comics Writers Explain Why They're Making Thor a Woman". Interview with Eliana Dockterman, time.com. July 15, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Battle, Mice

  6 Copy quote

• Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

  Robert R. McCammon

  Night, Rose, Bird

  4 Copy quote

• Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Inspiring, Mind

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things

  Mary Oliver

  Wise, Dog, Two

  Mary Oliver (2014). “Dream Work”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

  William James

  Science, Thinking, Hands

  1907 Pragmatism.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

  Arnold Lobel

  Book, Waiting, Feelings

  68 Copy quote

• Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste.
  The biologist passes, the frog remains.

  Jean Rostand

  Facts, Grenouille, Biologist

  6 Copy quote