Slugs Quotes
52 quotes by 49 authors
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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It…
— Evelyn Underhill
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be…
— Thomas Huxley
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There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.
— Cybill Shepherd
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or…
— Steven Pressfield
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Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it for a dollar…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but…
— Selma Blair
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I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs. I had this giant…
— Rupert Grint
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I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not…
— Richard Adams
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It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass…
— Celia Thaxter
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Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many…
— Roger Swain
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Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any…
— David Attenborough
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Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived…
— Celia Thaxter
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Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town…
— Susan Hayward
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The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it.…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in…
— Thomas Harris
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Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt
— Pat Condell
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Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At…
— Jenny Eclair
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Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being…
— John Ruskin
Who Wrote These Slugs Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 52 Slugs Quotes, led by these top contributors: