“The Tortoise and the Hare”

Cultural  

1. One of Aesop's fables. A tortoise and a hare hold a race. The hare is so confident of winning that he lies down halfway through and goes to sleep. The tortoise, knowing he must work hard to win, plods along without stopping until he passes the sleeping hare and wins.

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Example Sentences

Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” teaches the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

From Barron's

Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” teaches the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

From Barron's

“Jumpers,” from 1972, was in its way exemplary of Mr. Stoppard’s high-wire daring: a play that explored the dead ends of philosophy and the limits of human knowledge through the comic story of a befuddled academic juxtaposed with the fable of the tortoise and the hare.

From The Wall Street Journal

The new quasiparticles are fast, but, counterintuitively, they accomplish that speed by pacing themselves -- a bit like the story of the tortoise and the hare, Delor explained.

From Science Daily

But reach high atop that dusty bookshelf and grab “The Tortoise and the Hare” from Aesop’s Fables.

From Los Angeles Times