Elephants Quotes
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Elephants Quotes & Sayings
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
— Vin Diesel
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
— Geraldine Brooks
Great Elephants!" said Gandalf, "you are not at all yourself this morning - you have never dusted the mantelpiece!" "What's that got to do with it?
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The elephant smoked too much.
— Victor Borge
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
— Seth MacFarlane
When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.
— T. Boone Pickens
Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.
— Arthur Laurents
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
— Neil Gaiman
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
— Margaret Atwood
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
— K.A. Applegate
You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.
— Judith Rascoe
You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
— Mary Kay Ash
As Dr. Chiang puts it, while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.
— Carlo M. Cipolla
May an elephant caress you with his toes
— 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
I'm a floating TURNIP HEAD
— Mo Willems
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold ...
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Money, power, sex ... and elephants.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Life goes on with fragile normalcy.
— Sara Gruen
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
— 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.
— Gary Larson
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
— Gloria Steinem
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others' backs at a circus.
— Gary Reilly
The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. — Andrew Vachss
So slowly the hot elephant heartsgrow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire. — D.H. Lawrence
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.
— Gautama Buddha
Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.
— Norris Church Mailer
Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit?A: Peanut shells on the floor. — Bucky Sinister
When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.
— Jerry Pinto
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.
— Robert Novak
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
— Elizabeth Wein
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
— George Balanchine
You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.
— Robert Christopher Riley
You know ... they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant. — Bill Murray
Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
— Bobby Knight
I wanted to work with an elephant.
— Robert Pattinson
A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.
— Greg Behrendt
Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.
— Jordan Sonnenblick
Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.
— Santosh Kalwar
Eleven Benevolent Elephants. Yeah! Say that five times real fast.
— Donald Allen Kirch
Elephants are contagious
— Paul Eluard
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
— Jim Hightower
Morels are ugly in the skillet. The caps look like the scrotums of leprechauns, the stems like the tusks of fetal elephants.
— Tom Robbins
Needless to say, the manufacture of elephants is no easy matter.
— Haruki Murakami
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
— Henry David Thoreau
What I was really researching was not how elephants deal with loss but how humans can't. And
— Jodi Picoult
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
— Andy Rooney
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
— Frans De Waal
The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
— Pope Gregory I
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
— Doug Stanhope
Their earlier poor performance had had more to do with the way they were tested than with their mental powers. Elephants
— Frans De Waal
Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.
— Laura Schlessinger
Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.
— Gregory Colbert
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
— Randolph Bourne
The elephant, the huge old beast,is slow to mate — D.H. Lawrence
Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.
— Leonard Bishop
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Seconds are slowly, slowly passing by; like a lazy herd of elephants, heavy and laborious.
— Gary Edward Gedall
Women and elephants never forget.
— Dorothy Parker
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
— Wyndham Lewis
