Tortoise Quotes
48 quotes by 41 authors
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was…
— Anita Brookner
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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
— Jonathan Carroll
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Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be…
— Mao Zedong
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[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
— William Cowper
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Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good…
— Charles Warren Stoddard
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Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.
— Terry Pratchett
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But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise…
— Terry Pratchett
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I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and…
— Eugene Ionesco
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The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze.…
— Taiichi Ohno
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It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern…
— E. Cobham Brewer
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The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the…
— Bertrand Russell
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A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.
— Maureen Lipman
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Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise
— Robert Lloyd
Who Wrote These Tortoise Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 48 Tortoise Quotes, led by these top contributors: