Frogs Quotes

“We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.”
― Eric Berne

“...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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― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time: Easyread Large Edition

“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, The Color of Magic

“There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin' loudly goin' on about" oh the baby's lovely. "They said it's got, er, lovely big eyes, er, really big hands and feet. Now that doesn't sound like a nice baby to me. I felt like sayin' it sounds like a frog. But I thought I don't know her, there's only so much you can say to a stranger. I don't know what kept me from sayin' it.”
― Karl Pilkington

“If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.”
― Dan Rather

“Come come! Come Out!
From bogs old frogs command the dark
and look...the stars”
― Kikaku, Japanese Haiku

“I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs”
― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

“He has no faith in principles, only in frogs.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“The French are completely without scruples, energy or valor - the Great War castrated them and left them diminished, whiney, mistaking bickering for debate and shrillness for eloquence, they are a nation in such effete decline that Shickelgrubber, when he finally attacks them, might be dancing with the keys to Paris in his hand after a week or two of puny skirmishing.”
― Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim

“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

“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“No frogs can sing as well as Polish ones.”
― Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz

“Heis:frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to face how little we know.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

“Nights can never be real and enjoyable without the croaking of frogs and the chirping of crickets.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“This is in line with what the Yalkut notes: when King David finished composing the Book of Psalms, he boasted to the Holy One, blessed be He," Master of the Universe! Is there anything in the world that lifts up its voice in song like me? "—upon which a frog appeared before him and said," Do not be so proud of yourself. I sing more than you do.”
― S.Y. Agnon, A City in Its Fullness

“It was still raw and cold, but every now and then there would be a day, or an hour, or a moment, when the sun came out, and there was something different in the air: a sort of glimpsed fragrance, like when the kitchen door is opened for a second while the birthday cake is being baked. It was a smell of promise. The little brook bellowed hoarsely; there was a swelling at the joints of the twigs, and the first skunk cabbages appeared, brown cowls beside the brook. And at night, tinkling, jingling, gurgling, with high silvery notes, came the voices of the peepers. The dark was spangled with their voices.”
― Elizabeth Enright, The Four-Story Mistake

“Have you ever been struck by a sudden desire for—soup?”
― Aristophanes (Playwright)

“Okay, so we know that someone at your place of work hacked into this laptop. That's what we know, that's all we know; let's not jump to conclusions...yet."
"Unless...it's backward...”
― Dayna Rubin, A Vetted Asset

“You can't tell by the look of a frog how far they'll jump.”
― Paul Doiron, Trespasser

“No one today can credibly claim to know how the future will turn out. I have been told that while all frogs begin their lives as tadpoles, not all tadpoles become frogs. It seems that in certain artificially controlled environments - and who will deny that our environments are increasingly artificial - some will remain tadpoles their entire lives. At this point in our cultural history we are becoming like the tadpoles of a new kind of humanity. It remains to be seen of one day we will become frogs.”
― Robert Pogue Harrison, Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age

“I joined Claudio on an expedition in search of one of the country’s most fabulous freaks, the incredibly rare Southern Darwin’s frog, which was discovered by the big beard himself in 1834 on his epic five year Beagle voyage. What makes this frog so extraordinary is that it has eschewed conventional pond-based metamorphosis for something more sci-fi: after mating the male guards the fertilized eggs until they are close to hatching, then gobbles them up. Six weeks later, like a scene out of Alien, he barfs up baby frogs. He is the only male animal other than the seahorse to give birth, albeit through his mouth.”
― Lucy Cooke, The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood

“Go ahead,” Starflight said. “It’s OK. I’ll watch them.” He shook his wings and puffed out his chest imposingly, which came across a bit like a tree frog trying to look menacing.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Hidden Kingdom

“The Prophet Avocatorium:

A person with a big mouth should never stand out in the rain lest a frog takes up residence in the mouth of a cave.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“A Gathering of Frogs by Stewart Stafford

Through the fence with friends,
And into the back field frontier,
Past the growing pile of lumber,
Shivers for the Halloween bonfire.

Down the slope to a boundary hedge,
Rusty bathtub lying like a crime scene,
And into the deepening marsh beyond,
For the ritual kidnapping of frogspawn.

Frogs leap through reeds and tall grass,
The bulbous jelly of many eyes located,
Scooped surgically into a container,
Up to our fort to study our live plunder.

Tongues of smoke from our twig fire,
On the derelict path between estates,
Crisps consumed in the darkening chill,
Then, satiated, a walk home for dinner.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I used to catch frogs in my backyard in Long Island. I don’t know, maybe they were toads. It doesn’t matter.”
― Aesop Rock

“Find some grass, or some wetlands, a pond, a lake, a stream, etc. Move some rocks, some branches, some vines, some leaves. It’s easier to spot [frogs] when they hop, otherwise they just blend into their habitat, so a little disturbance goes a long way.”
― Aesop Rock

“I’d advise looking into what types of frogs are native to your area so you know what to expect and when the best time to look is.”
― Aesop Rock

“I always find that just after dinner, when it’s still light out but beginning to get dark is a great time to find [frogs]. They are fun to play with, and you can place them in a jar with some holes in the top for closer inspection. Also a night time hunt is always fun, flashlights, etc.”
― Aesop Rock

“I find the act of searching for, catching and releasing frogs to be awesomely rewarding, and really one of my favorite activities to do since I was young, scouring my backyard with my brothers. They make for fascinating creatures, and I think catching frogs will always be something I find relaxing.”
― Aesop Rock