Elephant Quotes
Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.
- Italian proverb
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
- Kelvin Throop
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
- Kelvin Throop
An elephant: a mouse built to government specifications.
- from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the wild elephant goes
- Randolph Bourne
A true philosopher is like an elephant - he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
- Fontenelle
A true philosopher is like an elephant - he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
- Fontenelle
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Desmond Tutu
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant. But the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
- Indian proverb
I could easily learn to prefer an elephant to any other vehicle, partly because of that immunity from collisions, and partly because of the fine view one has from up there, and partly because of the dignity one feels in that high place, and partly because one can look in at the windows and see what is going on privately among the family. The Lahore horses were used to elephants, but they were rapturously afraid of them just the same. It seemed curious. Perhaps the better they know the elephant the more they respect him in that peculiar way. In our own case we are not afraid of dynamite till we get acquainted with it.
-Mark Twain, Following the Equator
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
- Dr. Seuss' Horton Hatches the Egg
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
- Noel Coward
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
- Last words of General John Sedgwick
It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant but not a fly.
- Josh Billings
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
-Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada on relations with the US
- Desmond Tutu
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant. But the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
- Indian proverb
I could easily learn to prefer an elephant to any other vehicle, partly because of that immunity from collisions, and partly because of the fine view one has from up there, and partly because of the dignity one feels in that high place, and partly because one can look in at the windows and see what is going on privately among the family. The Lahore horses were used to elephants, but they were rapturously afraid of them just the same. It seemed curious. Perhaps the better they know the elephant the more they respect him in that peculiar way. In our own case we are not afraid of dynamite till we get acquainted with it.
-Mark Twain, Following the Equator
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
- Dr. Seuss' Horton Hatches the Egg
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
- Noel Coward
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
- Last words of General John Sedgwick
It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant but not a fly.
- Josh Billings
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
-Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada on relations with the US
When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him.
- Indian proverb
CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
- Ambrose Bierce
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
- Andy Rooney
Women and elephants never forget.
- Dorothy Parker
Women are like elephants to me; they're nice to look at but I wouldn't want to own one.
- W. C. Fields
Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.
- Unknown
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.
- Saint Francis de Sales
If you are asked to join a parade, don't march behind the elephants.
- Zisla