Quotes About Tortoise

Southampton Row, however, is chiefly remarkable nowadays for the fact that you will always find a man there trying to sell a tortoise to a tailor.

Same hour, same set-up: woman plus tortoise, tortoise plus hibiscus, man plus gin and tonic. "To arm myself against the evening." She had found it perplexing, a man who feared the evening because he feared the night.

Galapagos tortoise," she said. "I'm one hundred and seven years old." "Huh. And you don't look a day over a hundred and five," I said.

"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily. "Really you are very dull!"

His neck as he stretched it upwards and backwards, felt like the neck of an antediluvian tortoise.

What the bolson tortoise reminds us is that it is ultimately less important to choose a baseline than it is to choose a direction. The direction the tortoise points to is the opposite of apocalypse.

She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!"-Arista

A tortoise out in winter?" cheeped the bird. " Ridiculous! " "No it isn't," snapped Shelley. "Oh no? Then let's see you fly home and cuddle up with your family like I can. Ha-cheep-ha!" "Of course I can't fly," thought Shelley. "I can't even hop!

In these days we're in a hare-and-tortoise race between mob rule and education: to avoid collapsing into mod rule we have to try to educate a minority that'll stand out against it. The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.