“I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.”
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
“Too hard for any frog's digestion,
To have his froghood call'd in question!”
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English poet 1722–1771Related quotes
The Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Teeth, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1830, p. 35 https://books.google.it/books?id=LK-_LIeEq2oC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35.
Herman E. Daly
(1938) American economist
Herman E. Daly (2008), as cited in: Ian Jenkins, Roland Schröder (2013). Sustainability in Tourism: A Multidisciplinary Approach. p. 143
“Try not to be too nervous. I only digest litigants on Thursday.”
Judith Sheindlin
(1942) American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH5TQ1ZXWNc&feature=channel_video_title
Quotes from Judge Judy cases, Being funny
“I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.”
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; first published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in the New York Saturday Press, 18 November 1865; revised by the author and reprinted the following month in The Californian; first anthologized in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches http://books.google.com/books?id=kqMDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA17 (1867), ed. John Paul
Yevgeny Zamyatin
(1884–1937) Russian author
On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)
Context: It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
The same is true of what we write: it walks and it talks, but it can be dead-alive or alive-alive. What is truly alive stops before nothing and ceaselessly seeks answers to absurd, "childish" questions. Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken — errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs. And if answers be impossible of attainment, all the better! Dealing with answered questions is the privilege of brains constructed like a cow's stomach, which, as we know, is built to digest cud.
Essay 3, Aphorism 16
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept