When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about… — John McQuiston II Copy Share Image
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind)… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry'… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of… — James Lee Copy Share Image
“If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls. — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“For the herds of wild elephants show no resentment when domesticated animals join them. They have none of that herd instinct directed… — Lt.-Col. J. H. Williams O.B.E Copy Share Image
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds. — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
