A Quote by Paulo Coelho

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian - Novelist
Born: August 24, 1947

There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.

Stephen Mitchell

And Poppy, remember that someday you will meet a frog who will turn into a handsome prince." "Good," Beatrix said. "Because all she's met so far are princes who turn into frogs." "Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures.

Lisa Kleypas

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Publilius Syrus

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

Richard Dawkins

I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.

Noam Chomsky

Once I.D.W. folks saw that people like Ben Shapiro were generally smart, highly informed, and often princely in difficult conversations, it's more understandable that occasionally a few frogs got kissed here and there as some I.D.W. members went in search of other maligned princes.

Eric Weinstein

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Bion of Borysthenes

Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

Fred Allen

We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

Nizar Qabbani

Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

Laura Prepon

I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.

Max Muller

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

Julia Quinn

I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

Cameron Diaz

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Bion of Borysthenes

Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.

Robert Stack

When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.

Sam Smith

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