Elephants Quotes

“Women and elephants never forget an injury.”

“The people deck him like a docile king of elephants.”

“That is like people blind by birth in, when viewing an elephant.”

“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant,
The only harmless great thing.”

“An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it.”

“The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy: his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.”

“Th' unwieldy elephant,
To make them mirth, us'd all his might, and wreathed
His lithe proboscis.”

“When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”

“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”

“A elephant's life is tedious, laborious and slow;
I've been an elephant all me life so I blooming well ought to know.”

“I'm an Introverted, Elephocentric, Hypochondriac,
And I'll stick in the Elephant's nursing home
Till I get me memory back!”

“His services are like so many white elephants, of which nobody can make use, and yet that drain one's gratitude, if indeed one does not feel bankrupt.”

“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.”

“The torn boughs trailing o'er the tusks aslant,
The saplings reeling in the path he trod,
Declare his might — our lord the Elephant,
Chief of the ways of God.”

“群盲評象
• 涅槃経 (Nirvana Sutra)
• Translation: A crowd of blind people evaluate an elephant.”

“Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar. Would I please come and do something about it?”

“Not that I think much depends
On how we treat our feathered friends,
Or hold the wrinkled elephant
A nobler creature than my aunt.
It's simply that I'm sure I can
Get on without my fellow man.”

“I suffer from Schizophrenia
It comes on me in spells
Sometimes I'm King of Armenia
At others I'm Orson Welles.
I tell them I'm Napoleon
and all that sort of bunk
They never guess that all the time
I'm laughing up me trunk!”

“

Elephant-ear-witnesses-to-be of hymns
and glorias, these ministrants all gray or
gray with white on legs or trunk, are a pilgrims'

pattern of revery not reverence — a
religious procession without any priests,
the centuries-old carefullest unrehearsed
play.

”

“In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant — a new Elephant — an Elephant's Child — who was full of 'satiable curiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.”