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snail

«By perseverance the snail reached the ark.»
«Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.»
Author: Ivan Turgenev | About: Time | Keywords: crawls, flies, happiest, snail, snails, swiftly
«In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.»
«The year's at the spring / And day's at the morn; / Morning's at seven; / The hillside's dew-pearled; / The lark's on the wing; / The snail's on the thorn; / God's in his heaven - / All's right with the world!»
«These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, / And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.»
«Time and Patience would bring the snail to Jerusalem.»
Author: Irish Proverb | Keywords: Jerusalem, snail, snails
«`Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail, / `There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.'»
«The further off from England, the nearer is to France - / Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.»
«The whining schoolboy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school.»