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Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion. -- Publilius Syrus
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
But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It's a grand thing to have a hare for a friend. -- Elizabeth Goudge
The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'. -- Brigid Brophy
Catch several hares and you won't catch one. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog. -- Benjamin Franklin
When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare. -- Sun Tzu
We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins. -- Dave Ramsey
O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! -- William Shakespeare
...Hell, which as every frequent traveler knows, is in Concourse D of O'Hare Airport. -- Dave Barry
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go. -- Benjamin Franklin
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? -- D. H. Lawrence
Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway? -- John Ensign
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. -- Russell Baker
The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare. -- Meriwether Lewis
"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." -- Lewis Carroll
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
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. -- John Berger
There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense. -- John Landis
Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare. -- Lewis Carroll
Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"! -- Lewis Carroll
If you pursue two hares, both will escape you. -- Robert Jordan
Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares. -- Khalil Gibran
When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked. -- Laozi
They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters? -- William Shakespeare
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. -- Anita Brookner
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. -- Terry Pratchett
Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you. -- Charlie Munger

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