Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some… — E. Cobham Brewer Copy Share Image
We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music. We must look up to God, as the young… — Tukaram Copy Share Image
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise;… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises). — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
