The snail is coming, who knows when it arrives. — Russian Proverbs
Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. — Gail Tsukiyama
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! — Richard Wright
Though snails are exceedingly slow,
There is one thing I'd like to know.
If I out run 'em round the yard,
How come they beat me to the chard? — Allen Klein
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. — Wole Soyinka
O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! — Kobayashi Issa
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. — Marlon Brando
Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. — George Carlin
For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace. — Edwin Way Teale
Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor. — Ambrose Bierce
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle. — Ambrose Bierce
Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible. — Doug Larson
Short Snail Quotes
In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track. — Wright Morris
Time and patience brings a snail to Cork — Irish Proverbs
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency. — Bill Mollison
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. — Iris Murdoch
Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it? — Kobayashi Issa
My taste includes both snails and oysters. — Marcus Licinius Crassus
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. — Mason Cooley
God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world. — Robert Browning
That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice. — Smokey Robinson
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! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude in public... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell... You can carry it wherever you go. — Constantin Stanislavski
Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agendas he deals with — Charles Correa
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. — Arthur Brisbane
My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet. — Matsuo Basho
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! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
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. — Diane Lane
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. — Simon Birch
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. — Anton Chekhov
In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go. — Susan Cain
Save your wack rhymes, hold your female.
Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale.
Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out the mail.
Love to eat shrimps, but I never eat snail,
Eat a whole fish except for the tail.
Keep food in the fridge so it don't get stale,
And when there's nothing to eat...I bite my nails. — Big Daddy Kane
The further off from England the nearer is to France-
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. — Lewis Carroll
Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you and can be equally a part of you wherever you are. I think that not having a home is a good inducement to creating a metaphysical home and to being able to see it in more invisible ways. — Pico Iyer
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. — Francis Bacon
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. — William Cowper
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 right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted. — Stephen King
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 it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water. — Annie Dillard
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. — Groucho Marx
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. — Celia Thaxter
Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms -- so familiar at this time of year -- can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain. — Dave Barry
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. — Jules Renard
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