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“Well,�� said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?��

“Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.��

“I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,�� the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

“If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.”
― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“Old dark sleepy pool...
Quick unexpected frog
Goes plop! Watersplash!”
― ��������ō, Japanese Haiku

“Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, but if he doesn't, you won't be fooled by some wishful illusion in your head.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

“You jumped like a frog.
You touched like a dog.
You kissed like a bird.”
― Santosh Kalwar, An Aphrodisiac

“Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!”
― R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver

“But love was also transforming. I knew that from fairy tales. It could turn you back from a cat or a frog or a beast. Probably it could turn you into those things, too.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Conversation, indeed!" said the Rocket. "You have talked the whole time yourself. That is not conversation."

"Somebody must listen," answered the Frog, "and I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“Let us agree, we will be friends for all eternity.”
― Jacqueline Mea

“Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“He sees the shit that happens around me - or because of me - so now he is only 99.99 percent certain I can't turn him into a frog.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Toil & Trouble

“Kirie didn’t know that he was a frog stuck at the bottom of a well. He didn’t even comprehend the nature of this dumping ground in which he vented his excessive passions. He grasped only the illusions crawling out of the bottom of a bottle of stout as he gasped for air.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger

“Ask a toad what is beauty. He will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly, and a brown back,”
― Voltaire

“Don't ask me for directions, you'll get lost.”
― Ozgen Halil, Henrietta Hen In Trouble Again

“Arm yourself when the Frog God smiles.
�� Gowachin admonition”
― Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

“To horses, dogs and cats, to birds in cages, to pigs in sties, to sheep in folds, to cattle in stalls—to them all he sang his song and danced his dance! When he was eating out-of-doors he would pay court to the nearest toad or frog or blind-worm. When he was sucking an orange before going to bed, he would make overtures to a spider.”
― John Cowper Powys, The brazen head

“The following morning, Wilhelmina awoke to a lone lily pad moaning after escaping from an exquisite Monet painting piece that was hosting some shades of watercolor chips that were a century and half-oldish that subbed as a dish for artsy gourmet-eating tadpoles that had both a yearning for the foggy past and longing for their froggy future.”
― J.S. Mason, The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats

“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

“As women look at a frog
wanting to see the prince,
men look at a princess
wishing to see the tree frog.”
― Augusto Branco

“When Robert was younger he lived somewhere else. When asked, he could never say exactly where, for the simple but painful reason that the nature of his removal from his home had been so sudden and rough and frightening, and had taken such a long time to end, that by the time he found himself in his new home and dared to open his eyes, he had not the slightest idea where he was or where he had come from.”
― Steve B McGlaughlin

“I have a feeling that you are a long way from home, little fella?�� the man went on. “I bet the big storm brought you here. Did you come from the mountains, all the way up there?�� he said, pointing across the Pond to a mountain range in the distance.”
― Steve B McGlaughlin

“A frog is very interesting. He sits like us, too, you know. But he does not think that he is doing anything so special. When you go to a zendo and sit, you may think you are doing some special thing. While your husband or wife is sleeping, you are practicing zazen! You are doing some special thing, and your spouse is lazy! That may be your understanding of zazen. But look at the frog. A frog also sits like us, but he has no idea of zazen. Watch him. If something annoys him, he will make a face. If something comes along to eat, he will snap it up and eat, and he eats sitting. Actually that is our zazen—not any special thing.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“THE PUDDOCK

A puddock sat by the lochan's brim,
An he thought there was never a puddock like him.
he sat on his hurdies, he waggled his legs,
An cockit his heid as he glowered through the seggs.
The biggsy wee cratur was feelin that prood,
He gapit his mou an he croakit oot lood:
'Gin ye'd a like tae see a richt puddock,' quo he,
'Ye'll never, I'll sweer, get a better nor me.
I've femlies an wives an a weel-plenished hame,
Wi drink for my thrapple an meat for my wame.
The lasses aye thocht me a fine strappin chiel,
An I ken I'm a rale bonny singer as weel.
I'm nae gaun tae blaw, but th' truth I maun tell -
I believe I'm the verra McPuddock himsel.'...

A heron was hungry an needin tae sup,
Sae he nabbit th' puddock an gollupt him up;
Syne runkled his feathers: 'A peer thing,' quo he,
'But - puddocks is nae fat they eesed tae be.”
― John M. Caie, The Puddock

“I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say 'Love' and twitch like the lopped leg of a frog.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.”
― King James Bible

“We can be your crew!' offered Stardog. 'Where to?'
'Through waters brimming with sea monsters!' Frog hummed. 'It's very risky.”
― E. K. Mosley, The Last Stardog

“The other frogs all told me to stay safe in our well and to stop filling my head with, "Dangerous ocean nonsense!" But I could not forget...”
― E. K. Mosley, The Last Stardog

“Dangerous ocean nonsense!”
― E. K. Mosley, The Last Stardog