[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I…

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

— William Cowper

I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.

— William Cowper

... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

— William Cowper

[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

— William Cowper

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

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to…

— Megan Whalen Turner

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

My father collected turtles when he was young. My parent's wedding album, there's two pictures of them getting married and the rest are just…

— Hanya Yanagihara

So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has…

— John Green

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or…

— Pat Conroy

We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and…

— Mao Zedong

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