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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… — Anita Brookner
- May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
- Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by… — Mao Zedong
- [My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. — William Cowper
- Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is… — Charles Warren Stoddard
- Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in… — Elwyn Brooks White
- Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her… — Henry David Thoreau
- Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett
- But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One… — Terry Pratchett
- I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song,… — Eugene Ionesco
- The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops… — Taiichi Ohno
- It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the… — Megan Whalen Turner