Snail Quotes
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
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The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
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If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years. Would we know we were together?
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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.
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Slugs, despite what one might think, given their naked look, do not predate snails on the evolutionary tree but were once snails that evolved over time to be shellless.
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The snail and I were both living in altered landscapes not of our choosing; I figured we shared a sense of loss and displacement.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.
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Life without a snail was hard to contemplate.
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In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.
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The snail had been a true mentor; its tiny existence had sustained me. Late one winter night I wrote in my journal: A last look at the stars and then to sleep. Lots to do at whatever pace I can go. I must remember the snail. Always remember the snail.
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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.
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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
