
Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals?, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant translation: Boys throw stones at frogs for fun, but the frogs don't die for "fun", but in sober earnest.
As quoted by Plutarch, Moralia, xii. 66
Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals?, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”
Part 8, Chapter 10 (p. 196)
Source: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“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)
Source: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 5, “Monster Becoming Mortal Again” (p. 50)
September 24, 2009 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34746_Glenn_Beck_Lies_About_LGF&only
“A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.”
“Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?”
[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090901930.html On the refugees of Hurricane Katrina]] ~ As reported in the Washington Post, (10 September 2005)
2000s