Quotes and Sayings About Elephants
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OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
-- A. M. Rosenthal -
They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.
-- Aaron Koblin -
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?
-- Adam Rex -
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.
-- Alex Shoumatoff -
Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.
-- Ally Carter -
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!
-- Andre Norton -
The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
-- Andrew Vachss -
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.
-- Arthur Laurents -
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.
-- Arthur Mutambara -
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
-- Audrey Meadows -
The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.
-- Baba Hari Dass -
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
-- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was not more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable.
-- Bertrand Russell -
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
-- Beryl Markham -
I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.
-- Beryl Markham -
[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.
-- Beryl Markham -
I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
-- Betty White -
You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
-- Bill Murray -
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
-- Bob Barker -
Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
-- Bobby Knight -
Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant? A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.
-- Bucky Sinister -
In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.
-- Caitlin Moran -
As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.
-- Carlo M. Cipolla
