I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants…

“For the herds of wild elephants show no resentment when domesticated animals join them. They have none of that herd instinct directed against the…

— Lt.-Col. J. H. Williams O.B.E

The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts…

— Gene Spafford

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin…

— Lindsey Graham

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the…

— Ray Comfort

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end…

— Isak Dinesen

The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Mkhaya's herd is a good-sized group - sixteen in all, counting the calves - and even though they are the largest land mammals on…

— Thomas French

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.

— Jordan Sonnenblick

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various…

— Bertrand Russell

But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage…

— Bertrand Russell

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

— Bertrand Russell

Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts…

— Bertrand Russell

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision…

— Charles Churchill