Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

— E. B. White

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

— Arthur Quinn

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

— Mark Twain

There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with…

— Karl Pilkington

Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

— Mason Cooley

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!…

— Emily Dickinson

Rachel, Rachel, Rachel,” he said, very still and unmoving. “Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You’re like a frog, you know.

— Kim Harrison

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it…

— Anonymous

These people are like ... a frog living in a well, who has never seen the outside world. He knows only his well, so…

— Ramakrishna

people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

— E. B. White

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

— Mark Twain

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

— Mark Twain

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

— Mark Twain