Quote by Jasper Fforde

“Snails do not despair for having short legs, but rejoice for being able to travel long distances in spite of them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“As the snail's world grew more familiar, my own human world became less so; my species was so large, so rushed, and so confusing.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“I took out the book once more. Snails can sleep for three years without eating. Snail comas. Welcome to my world.”

— Shelly Crane

“What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?”

— Toba Beta

“The snail had been a true mentor; its tiny existence had sustained me. Late one winter night I wrote in my journal: A last…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“Millions of centuries of voyaging via animals, water, and wind brought my snail's family to colonize the woods near where I was staying. It…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

— Edwin Way Teale

“I wrote to one of my doctors: I could never have guessed what would get me through this past year - a woodland snail…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“He parks in the far corner of the lot, explaining that it is more logical to do this and then walk for fifteen seconds…

— Neal Stephenson

“The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The traffic began crawling now- but it was a progress even a snail would have been ashamed to claim.

— Anonymous

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

— Gail Tsukiyama