Elephants Quotes

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

May an elephant caress you with his toes

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

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.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

...the elephant smoked too much.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants

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.

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.