I can clean up after the kids when they’re sick, I can eat…

“It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify…

— Munia Khan

“He sat looking at it with his eyes protruding in the manner popularized by snails, looking like something stuffed by a taxidermist who had…

— P.G. Wodehouse

Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they…

— Allen Klein

We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.

— Stanislaw Lem

In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's…

— Susan Cain

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.

— Malcolm X

“One of the new species is Alviniconcha strummeri, named as a joint tribute to the research submarine and to Joe Strummer, the lead vocalist…

— Helen Scales

“And Hortensio falls asleep happily and starts snoring, although nobody could hear him snoring, because nobody can hear the noises that snails make, all…

— Elena D. Calin

“He had found that all snails have the capacity to do over one hundred miles per hour and find their way to a given…

— Jasper Fforde

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

— Al Yankovic

My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is…

— Debra Hamel

“I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said, 'provide something…

— Andrew Wilson

My taste includes both snails and oysters.

— Marcus Licinius Crassus