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The Boys and the Frogs
Some boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began ... AESOP Trouble makers are like frogs any pond will do.
SUSIE L HILL When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; co...
BASHō MATSUO All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow
BASHō MATSUO Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice...
Or backyard love?
BASHō MATSUO Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice
BASHō MATSUO Mountain-rose petals
Falling, falling, falling now...
Waterfall music
BASHō MATSUO Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel...
Sleeping our noons away
BASHō MATSUO April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves...a butterfly
Floats and balances
BASHō MATSUO This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds.
BASHō MATSUO Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.
BASHō MATSUO Ballet in the air...
Twin butterflies until, twice white
They Meet, they mate
BASHō MATSUO Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening
BASHō MATSUO Come, butterfly
It's late-
We've miles to go together.
BASHō MATSUO Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
BASHō MATSUO The journey itself is my home.
BASHō MATSUO Suvvia, andiamo a
contemplare la neve
fino a cadervi dentro.
BASHō MATSUO When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring...
MATSUO BASHō Chrysanthemum
Silence - monk
Sips his morning tea.
MATSUO BASHō Wintery day,
On my horse
A frozen shadow.
MATSUO BASHō Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHō For a lovely bowl
Let us arrange these flowers...
For there is no rice
MATSUO BASHō I had sat around campfires all my life, since I was 10 years old. I wanted the sound of water.
ED WARNER
The Ass and the Frogs
AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As he
was crossing t... AESOP The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brick...
JOHN CONSTABLE A major concern is stock water, particularly in the Flint Hills - almost all that stock water is fro...
GARY KILGORE The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented wi...
BRADLEY CHICHO We jumped out of the plane and we were thigh deep in the marsh water. It was just mud.
GABRIEL VIVAS It's very dramatic. One year, you visit a lake and the population will seem fine. The next year you ...
LARA RACHOWICZ
American society is sort of a flat fresh water pond, which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth... HENRY ADAMS We anticipate someday water will flow down Long Pond Road to Cedarville and that's part of our water...
GEORGE CROMBIE
The sound of water says what I think. ZHUANGZI
Willow trees dipped their bare branches into pond water like girls testing the temperature with thei... ELIZABETH BERG
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth... HENRY ADAMS
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the price... PAULO COELHO Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
BION
The water in the pond inside my heart doesn't shine anymore. It has turned dark. Every ghost from my... AKSHAY VASU
You will always find an answer in the sound of water.Chuang-Tse CHUANG TZU I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun wi...
WILLIAM JOYCE Passengers panicked when water started seeping in and some people jumped into the river, shaking the...
ANIL KUMAR
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing ... CLIVE JAMES Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting...
EMMA CAMERON
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most... MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs becom... PAULO COELHO
When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to ... ARTHUR GOLDEN
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own wa... BILL VAUGHAN The technique is like water skiing. You want to be at a pretty good speed, otherwise it's pond swimm...
CORIE STONE
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own wa... BILL VAUGHN There has been an increase in the number of malformed frogs. What's causing these malformed frogs is...
CHARLES CARLSON
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a... JOSH BILLINGS As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in ...
JOANNA RUSS As I was reeling the fish in, it jumped out of the water about 10 feet from the boat. We all knew it...
GLEN DUESING
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. OCTAVIO PAZ
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone h... ARTHUR GOLDEN We heard that a suicide attacker was among the crowd. Everybody was yelling, so I jumped from the br...
FADHEL ALI
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through... MUDDY WATERS All the old-timers tell me they've never seen water in the courthouse before. There was 6 feet of wa...
BUTCH LOPER
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evoc... M. F. K. FISHER
This is a gross and disturbing violation of the commitment to keep water healthy in the straits and ... JAY INSLEE We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up un...
ELISABETH EAVES
How many frogs would fit in lizard’s stomach? LAUREN MYRACLE Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. DOGEN
And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my princ... JOAN COLLINS We've hooked fish so big in here we couldn't land them. Fish and Wildlife has taken a 9-year-old, 13...
JOE GLOWA
It may sound stupid, but I have always loved those water lilies. OLIVIER THEYSKENS The roadways have been graded and the retention pond for the lake has been dug, although there are e...
DON HOTH Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never ...
BLAKE CROUCH We sell a lot of fountains and water features. A lot of people like the sound for background noise. ...
DEBRA TIBBS But paradoxically, the losses of harlequin frogs were taking place in unusually warm years.
J. ALAN POUNDS They were 10 feet off the dock and it blew. The whole back end blew out, and it about blew me into t...
MICHELE JOHNSON
In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a... VICTORIA BECKHAM Everybody in Utah probably has a thousand old buckets or clay pots, even tires that collect water, a...
LANCE MADIGAN The Witch of Blackbird Pond
ELIZABETH GEORGE
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot... JESSE VENTURA
California's red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is ... ROBERT STACK
I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized ... LEONARD LAUDER It was a sound; I'm 70-years old and I hope I never hear that sound again.
DOLORES CLEMENS We haven't really paid attention to what goes on below the surface in Puget Sound or any water body.
PHILIP MOTE I grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped f...
HELEN CRAIG
Did you know that if you put a frog in boiling water, he’ll jump out? But, if you put one in cold ... EMMA CHASE
He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in t... TERRY PRATCHETT
I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain ... CHARLES STROSS We've made a few jokes that it's more like a moat than it is a lake right now. It's a pond, basicall...
LANCE RITCHIE The boat was overloaded with more than 70 people in it. Passengers panicked when water started seepi...
ANIL KUMAR They walk on the Lord's Path, and inspire others to walk on the Lord's Path as well. Bathing in a po...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB My heart jumped,
DANNY SMITH We hugged, and jumped up and down.
ELIZABETH HERNANDEZ
When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. DAVID HARE
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a ... JEAN KERR Tornadoes over land and rivers suck up frogs and fish from rivers, lakes and ponds, high up in the a...
SALEEM RUSTOM
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. STEVE LACY We were on the bridge. It was so crowded. Thousands of people were surrounding me. We heard that a s...
FADHEL ALI The water doesn't know how old you are.
DARA TORRES Two suspects jumped out of the car and started firing at officers. Then, they jumped back in the veh...
BERNARD GONZALEZ They're going to level out the property and then put in a detention drainage pond so the rainwater r...
FRANK SZOLLOSI It's jumped several lines we put in approximately four cut lines and it jumped every one.
BRUCE MILLER Some fish get caught for biting and some fish just get caught for being in the wrong part of the pon...
CLARE VANDERPOOL I jumped right in there because I ain't used to seeing that. So I jumped in there with them.
MARCO KILLINGSWORTH
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke. GEORGE HERBERT
