Wood Frogs

Famous quotes containing the words wood and/or frogs:

    This is one of the most serious intrusions into personal life that I can think of, and it’s as bad as anything I’ve ever experienced.
    —Ellen Wood Hall (b. 1945)

    The standards of His Majesty’s taste made all those ladies who aspired to his favour, and who were near the Statutable size, strain and swell themselves, like the frogs in the fable, to rival and bulk and dignity of the ox. Some succeeded, and others burst.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)