Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or frogs:
“Like to the tree of Tantalus she fled,
And seeming lavish, sav’de her maydenhead.
Ne’re king more sought to keepe his diademe;
Than Hero this inestimable gemme.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“One cannot speak of ice to summer insects nor talk about the sky to frogs in a well.”
—Chinese proverb.