What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me? — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare... — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
“Interesting fact: eagles are the only birds to work out how to eat tortoises. You know? They pick them up, flying up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Author reports that a group of tortoises was given to the British by India's natives during the Seven Years War which ended… — Patrick N. Allitt Copy Share Image
“Tortoises are not very fast, as everyone knows, but they make up for their slow speed by being very determined. And if… — William Herring Copy Share Image
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is… — Charles Warren Stoddard Copy Share Image
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
“In a tree-shaded pasture, seventeen adult tortoises randomly stood around. As I fed them spinach leaves sold by an opportune vendor, they… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
My father collected turtles when he was young. My parent's wedding album, there's two pictures of them getting married and the rest… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“One of my predecessors used to have people torn to death by wild tortoises. It was not a quick death.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. — Sappho Copy Share Image
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
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