Famous Proverbs
17 Proverbs about Tortoise
1.
The fly that bites the tortoise breaks its beak.2.
What does the tortoise care for flies?3.
You compare the tortoise to the hare.4.
The wise man and the tortoise travel but never leave their home.5.
After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste.6.
It is only the tortoise that moves and carries its shell about, which it calls its house.7.
It is not only the hare, the tortoise arrives also at the destination.8.
It is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise to carry his house along with him wherever he goes.9.
The tsetse-fly is perched on the tortoise's back in vain.10.
The child is capable of splitting open the snail, not the tortoise.