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Frogs Quotes - Page 3

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

Arthur Quinn (2012). “Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase”, p.5, Routledge

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.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.357

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.

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.44, Random House

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons (2015). “The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series”, p.421, Macmillan