A snail's pace


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Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is.
PETER TIERYAS
Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type...
RICHARD PREECE
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (English Proverb.
UNKNOWN
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. Russian proverb
RUSSIAN PROVERB
No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB
One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
Darwin stuck snails on ducks' feet and submerged them in seawater and found them to die quickly on e...
RICHARD PREECE
I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silenc...
BILLY COLLINS
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
Her pretty feet Like snails did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-pe...
ROBERT HERRICK
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
We are well over pace.
RENE PEREZ
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to b...
MERCEDES LACKEY
Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.
LAO TZU
Snails do not despair for having short legs, but rejoice for being able to travel long distances in ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb
CHINESE PROVERB
That helped us a lot. It's a way different pace, a way faster pace at that level.
CORY DAVIS
Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous ...
RICHARD PREECE
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them
CHINESE PROVERBS
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE
When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
Through wisdom your days will be many,
and years will be added to your life…
By wisdom ...
ANONYMOUS
Don't suck juice out of dirty belly buttons. You will get a stomach ache.~A Nerissa Proverb
NERISSA IRVING
We still have a long way to go. We're not on a 2025 pace, but we're on a 2042 pace.
BOB CRESON
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single ste...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single st...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The only good race pace is suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
STEVE ROLAND PREFONTAINE
You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.
IRISH PROVERB
We're on a record pace.
AL SHROPSHIRE
Shushtari proverb “Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it’s a hollow walnut shell.�...
FIROOZEH DUMAS
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

- Chinese pr...
ALVIN TOFFLER
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH PROVERB
If the bird hadn’t sung, it wouldn’t have been shot. Japanese Proverb
BOHDI SANDERS
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ear...
ERIC JOHNSTON
It's hard to say how far they walked. They were in the forest for nine months, eating snails and lea...
DAVID BRANDON
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ear...
ERIC JOHNSTON
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?
C. FERN COOK
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
I usually describe it as, 'Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are snails,...
CRISPIN GLOVER
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
FRANK HERBERT
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
LAO TZU
When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yo...
JODI PICOULT
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water
SWEDISH PROVERB
Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON
Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his ...
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