7 Tortoise Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Politics Patience Game Will Long First Run Tortoise Beat Long Run Intellect Very Stamina Requirement Hare

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. Terry Pratchett

You Tortoise Give Could Look Trample Mean Them Meaningful

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. Anita Brookner

Time Writing Market Tortoise No Time Read Contention

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

Life Time You Game Writing Real Life Busy Every Too Every Time Market Tortoise Case Winning Wins No Time Look Read Around Contention Real Any Who Hare

The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected. Gale Norton

Opportunity Care Pay Tortoise Costs Gives Area Take Take Care Developers Long-Term Protected Manage Going Move Decide Us Enhancing

Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo. Padgett Powell

Signs Snake Tortoise Find Park Could Parks Colorful Information Scrub Jay Special Many Showing Flora Florida

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world. Tom Hodgkinson

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