Frogs Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frogs Tongue Waiting
“Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“Given the choice between grabbing a strange tongue and watching a monster poop into a giant snail shell, the face retreats and slams the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Flies escape from the mouth that says 'A closed mouth gathers no flies.' — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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