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Weaving spiders, come not here, Hence, you long legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not here, worm nor snail, do no offense. — William Shakespeare

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. — William Shakespeare

My dear imaginary Captain MacKenzie, you are not real and never will be. I, however, am a true and eternal fool.
Here, have a drawing of a snail. — Tessa Dare

Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy. — Mary Lambert

My taste includes both snails and oysters. — Marcus Licinius Crassus

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should? — Epictetus

I will take my corporal oath that we move no faster than a snail can gallop, or an ant can trot. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail ... the snail kept my spirit from evaporating. — Elisabeth Tova Bailey

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail. — Jo Walton

A snail will never take a plunge in a river to find refreshment; I am refreshed wherever I am located for my source is Elshaddai... — Bayode Ojo

I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion! — Bill Bailey

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. — Arthur Brisbane

I can perform the life of the snail and be moving. — Mary Woronov

I am this fiery snail crawling home. — Charles Bukowski

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move. — Brigitte Bardot

In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track. — Wright Morris

The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace. — Maryse Conde

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly! — Kobayashi Issa

Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not — Caryl Ann Casbon

I felt sorry for myself since my wimpy dom can't catch a snail crossing the sidewalk. — Cherise Sinclair

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! — Richard Wright

I opened the door as quickly as I could - speedy as a snail in glue. My fine-motor coordination was set on suck mode. — Devon Monk

A snail hides in his shell. — George R R Martin

The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself — Munia Khan

A hibernating snail is not necessarily dead — Messaoud Mohammed

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor. — George Will

I liked the sea better than the earth and I sooner would've taken care of a snail than a baby. — Tiana Warner

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all. — A.A. Milne

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.' — Julian Fellowes

A hibernating snail doe not necessarily mean it is dead — Messaoud Mohammed

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace. — Edwin Way Teale

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail. — Anton Chekhov

What are you doing in a fast lane, snail? — Toba Beta

The life of a snail is as full of tasty food, comfortable beds of sorts, and a mix of pleasant and not-so-pleasant adventures as that of anyone I know — Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it? — Kobayashi Issa

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. — Wole Soyinka

Move at a snail's pace or walk with the speed of a turtle or run like a rabbit! Just move; forget about the speed and just move ahead! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am a single, useless snail-loathing datum. — Carl Zimmer

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

right now I feel like I just ate a cold snail raw. — Ray Bradbury

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. — Gail Tsukiyama

But she hates insta-love. Apparently she hates semi-instant love and love at a snail's pace and love in general and ... Fuck! — Colleen Hoover

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. — Mason Cooley

They say time flies when you're having fun, but boy does it move at a snail's pace when you're worried or depressed or anxious. — Kim Askew

No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

Progressing at a snail's pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day. — Neil Peart

A snail is slow, but that does not prevent it from traveling great distances. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks. — Richard Selzer

Time and patience would bring a snail to America,' he repeated. — Colm Toibin

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. — Iris Murdoch

Only an uncouth person would wear snail snot- Albert — Lynda Mullaly Hunt

They'd put their flesh and spirit into that house of theirs, like a snail. But the snail doesn't know what he's doing. The — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I took out the book once more. Snails can sleep for three years without eating. Snail comas. Welcome to my world. — Shelly Crane

They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms. — Louise Penny

What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence! — Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell

Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. — Malcolm X

I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life. — Jules Verne

Me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.
-Will Grayson (pg. 66) — David Levithan

We are unique not by comparison but by compassion (the moral of my book The Cheetah and the Snail) — Shriram

You don't have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency. — Bill Mollison

Man is slow like a snail; but what he needs is to run like a rabbit! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It was one of those still evenings you get in the summer, when you can hear a snail clear its throat a mile away. — P.G. Wodehouse

Don't tell anyone I said it?"
I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a Frenchman's kitchen. — Brandon Sanderson

The further off from England the nearer is to France-
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. — Lewis Carroll

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey