Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool…

“they knew what we’re doing for them, they’d kiss our feet. But mentally they are closer to the crocodile and the hippopotamus than to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

— Will Cuppy

I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light…

— Joseph Sittler

“Frankly, I couldn't be more astonished that this guy was involved in something like this than if you came riding through my apartment on…

— Dan Rather

The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the…

— Erma Bombeck

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.'…

— Zahi Hawass

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac…

— Bertrand Russell

[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify from The Hippopotamus

— Stephen Fry

A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one…

— Shel Silverstein

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can…

— Anonymous

I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how…

— James Thurber

“Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon's…

— Nick Harkaway

Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed…

— Richard Dawkins

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

— Phyllis Bottome

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton