Famous quotes containing the words brooding and/or frogs:
“They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro’ the body.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“One cannot speak of ice to summer insects nor talk about the sky to frogs in a well.”
—Chinese proverb.