Frogs Quote by E. B. White Download Open image “Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.” — E. B. White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frogs
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process” — Peter McGraw Copy Share Image
Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog few people are interested, and the frog dies. — Alan Ford Copy Share Image
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers that her mom and her younger sister, Miri, are… — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
“Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If frogs could fly - well, we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat? — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image