Tortoises Quotations

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

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.

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.