Quotes with tortoise

  • Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
  • In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

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  • E. B. White Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anita Brookner It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Charles A. Stoddard Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
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  • John Major The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
    John Major
    British politician (1943 - )
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  • Carl Honore The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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