Painted Frog

Famous quotes containing the words painted and/or frog:

    The sleeping and the dead
    Are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood
    That fears a painted devil.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)