Snail Quotes

79 quotes by 74 authors

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. — Arthur Brisbane
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
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
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
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
Iâ€™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
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
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
Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it? — Kobayashi Issa
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice. — Smokey Robinson
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: