One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare... — Clement Greenberg 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
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. — Sappho 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some… — Leonard Hayflick Copy Share Image
We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are the frontrunners. It's kind of like the race between the tortoise and the bad… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record… — Kieran Hebden Copy Share Image
Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster". — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns;… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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