Elephant Quotes

268 Elephant quotes by 215 unique authors

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression. — Mariella Frostrup
There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty… — Edward Topsell
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus. — A. M. Rosenthal
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion… — David Stockman
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. — Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. — Mary McCarthy
If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle. — Rickson Gracie
I have a face like the behind of an elephant. — Charles Laughton
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. — Karen Joy Fowler
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. — Arthur Mutambara
It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and… — Pema Chodron
They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even… — Adam Rex
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark. — Audrey Meadows
In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to… — Lindsey Graham
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I… — Bill Cosby
An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much. — Victor Borge
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it.… — Robert M. Sapolsky
The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern… — E. Cobham Brewer
What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant. — Jacques Monod
I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of… — Tom Stoppard
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of… — Terry Pratchett
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. — Michael Caine
Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem… — Nelson Mandela

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