A Quote by Athenaeus

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Athenaeus

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Boiling Greater Heard Pot Storm

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Athenaeus
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I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

Deb Caletti

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

Pearl S. Buck

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

Barbara Kingsolver

Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.

Lynn Fontanne

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

Al Pacino

God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.

John Hagee

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

Jack Johnson

To a boiling pot flies come not.

George Herbert

Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.

Don Rickles

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

James Patterson

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

Elon Musk

So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.

Marcel Proust

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Benjamin Franklin

If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.