Snail Quotes

Snail Quote of the day

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

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

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!

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 hands on the letter.

Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?

My taste includes both snails and oysters.

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

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 because it is not in my character to be rich.

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 back as a snail carries its shell.

I am this fiery snail crawling home.

Move at a snail's pace or walk with the speed of a turtle or run like a rabbit! Just move; forget about the speed and just move ahead!

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

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?

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

I can perform the life of the snail and be moving.

Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

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 seam, its wound, leaking attar.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.

The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself