Snail Quotes
79 quotes by 74 authors
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Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
— Arthur Brisbane
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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I…
— Jack Handey
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Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune…
— Jules Renard
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In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron,…
— Unknown Author
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I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet!…
— Constance Hale
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts,…
— Wendell Berry
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It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?
— Kobayashi Issa
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
— Epictetus
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Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in…
— Robert Pattinson
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The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass…
— Darrel Ray
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I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open…
— Cynthia Ozick
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What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of…
— Lurlene McDaniel
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I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and…
— Diane Lane
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This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to…
— Dave Barry
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In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire…
— Tim Cahill
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That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.
— Smokey Robinson
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Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
— Al Yankovic
Who Wrote These Snail Quotes
74 authors contributed a total of 79 Snail Quotes, led by these top contributors: