97+ Best Tortoise Day Quotes, Puns & Sayings

There are hundreds of Quotes and slogans available on Tortoise online. I have shortlisted few good slogans, quotes, puns and proverbs to save your time and energy. Here they are!

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Save our Tortoises
Let’s save the giant tortoises
Don’t buy tortoise shells
Don’t fall for illegal pet trade
Let’s get together and stop tortoise slaughter!
Tortoise – friend not food
Slow to run but fast to run out! Save the tortoise
Tortoise is a cold-blooded creature,
let’s save them with all our pleasure
Tortoises are vanishing at a faster rate,
poaching is causing a very big threat
Tortoise’s shell is beautiful and strong,
illegal pet trade is very very wrong
Tortoises have stumpy feet,
don’t kill them for a tasty meat
Tortoises love to bask in the warm sun,
help them grow in a long run
Many tortoise species are becoming endangered,
poachers have made, their future blurred
Save these majestic creatures
Too awesome to die! Save the Tortoise
Save our cute friends
All lives matter
Tortoises always make me smile!
I need a cute little tortoise hug
Save our tortoise friends!
Protect and respect
I’m wild about tortoises
Responsible tourism = tortoise friendly tourism
Let’s save tortoises
I love tortoises, Do you?
Let’s join hands to save tortoises
Don’t let me disappear
Together we can save tortoises
Save tortoise, Save life… Save planet
Live & let live
Nature and tortoises are made for each other.
Without them, the world will not be the same. Save Tortoise
Save the tortoises before they start living just in our stories.
Nature is not against Tortoises, why are you?
Once the tortoise is history, it won’t repeat itself…
Don’t let the tortoises go missing from the planet. Save them

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There is nothing as cute, as adorable and as fun as a tortoise. Save the Tortoises
Tiny tortoise looks cuddly and cute;
protect them without any dispute
We are polluting poor tortoise’s habitat;
Let’s save them, don’t just chitchat
Save Tortoises, save their habitat
Your greed kills a life. Stop illegal pet trading
What is my crime?
Keep calm & save the tortoise
Have a heart, do your part. Save the tortoise.
Fight for the tortoise’s right
Don’t wear your friends
Love Tortoises, don’t wear them
Being ‘Extinct’ Stinks!
Extinction is forever
If tortoises are lost,
we will pay the cost.
The ones who have no voice, need you to speak up.
Let’s unite as one,
saving tortoises is just so fun
Help save their existence,
tortoises need your assistance
For the tortoises you must fight,
so they won’t disappear out of sight
Tortoises are rapidly fading away;
can’t we help them in some way?
It’s no fun to be endanger;
show you care, don’t be a stranger.
Only if we understand… we can care;
Only if we care…we will help;
Only if we help… they shall be saved

Funny & Family Friendly Puns, Jokes & Riddles on Tortoise

I shell always love you
Miss you slow much!
Shell yeah!
Let’s Shellibrate!
Shello there!
If a tortoise loses its shell,
is it naked or homeless?
What do you call a famous tortoise?
— A shell-ebrity
What do you call a tortoise with a hammer?
— A Thor-toise
Where does a tortoise go when it’s raining?
— A shell-ter
What do tortoises use to communicate?
— A shell-phone!
What do you call a flying tortoise?
— A shellicopter
Why can’t a tortoise eat food from McDonald’s?
— Because a tortoise is too slow for fast food!
How do turles take their photo?
— With Shellphie stick
What does an introvert tortoise do?
— Never come out of its shell

Popular & Wise Quotes on Tortoise

“One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.” — Terry Pratchett
“A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years.”
— Leonard Hayflick
“May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.” — Jonathan Carroll
“Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.” — Josephine Winslow Johnson
“I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.” — Agatha Christie
“Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop.” — Robert Kiyosaki
“The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn’t bark. It doesn’t tear the Dralon.” — Maureen Lipman

Tortoise & Hare Quotes

“We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.” — Dave Ramsey
“Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.” — Khalil Gibran
“Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Remember, slow and steady wins the race.” — Ieyasu Tokugawa
“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
“We’re the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.” — Charlie Munger
“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
“How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life’s race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.” — B. C. Forbes
“Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.” — Charles Warren Stoddard

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“Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.” — Taiichi Ohno
“The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.” — Northrop Frye

Traditional Proverbs & Sayings on Tortoise

“The fly that bites the tortoise breaks its beak.” — Italian Proverb
“What does the tortoise care for flies?” — Latin Proverb
“The wise man and the tortoise travel but never leave their home.” — Chinese Proverb
“After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste.” — Maltese Proverb
“The tortoise is friends with the snail: those with shells keep their shells close together.” — Benin proverb
“It’s the tortoise’s shell, ugly and hard that protects its life long journey on earth.” — African Proverb
“The tortoise stores its wisdom in his shell.” — Bantu Proverb
“When a tortoise embarks on a journey he doesn’t ask for directions, because he does not want his enemies to know where he’s going.” — African Proverb
“It is not only the hare; the tortoise arrives also at the destination.” — Nigerian Proverb

List of Turtle / Tortoise Related Days Celebrated Worldwide

Date	Day
23 May	World Turtle Day
16 June	World Sea Turtle Day
27 November	Turtle Adoption Day

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