Snail Quotes

79 Snail quotes by 74 unique authors

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! — Kobayashi Issa
I am this fiery snail crawling home. — Charles Bukowski
James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all. — A A Milne
Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The… — Robert Browning
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am. — Philip Larkin
It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a proud family. Your… — P.G. Wodehouse
Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair fern… — Cate Tiernan
me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66) — David Levithan
I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails. — Raegan Butcher
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! — Richard Wright
It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home from Albany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow.… — Kelley Armstrong
Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From… — Haruki Murakami
Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we… — Gerry Spence
I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without… — Haruki Murakami
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but… — Annie Dillard
Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging… — Stephen King
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. — Jerzy Kosinski
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to… — P.J. O'Rourke
Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard… — Sandra Dodd
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or… — John Berger
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its… — James Stephens
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit… — Eric Kandel
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes… — Ivan Turgenev
I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls… — William Cowper

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