We called him Tortoise because he taught us. -The Mock…

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

— Lewis Carroll

The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We…

— Lewis Carroll

Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic...Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. -The Mock Turtle

— Alice In Wonderland

“As the tortoise can draw in his legs, and if you strike him, not one foot comes out,”

— Swami Vivekananda

“Love makes even a turtle smile.”

— Henrietta Newton Martin

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

— Heinrich Heine

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision

— Lewis Carroll

Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

— Lewis Carroll

“yet?' 'No,' said Alice. 'I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is.' 'It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said the…

— Lewis Carroll

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives.…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners…

— Kristin Armstrong

The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to…

— Taiichi Ohno

“You must really want to win with all of your heart! Plan your race; do not ever get side tracked. Focus on your goal…

— Lucas Remmerswaal

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell…

— E. B. White

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

— Maureen Lipman