Best Elephant Proverbs
268 Elephant quotes by 215 unique authors
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Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
— Lyall Watson
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Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse…
— Frans de Waal
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Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running…
— Frans de Waal
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By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of…
— Josh Homme
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After my pregnancy, I had put on 22.5 kilos. I looked like a baby elephant. But I shed it all by working out rigorously and…
— Shilpa Shetty
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Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not…
— Shashi Tharoor
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Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in…
— Mark Shand
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The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
— Mark Shand
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In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant…
— Mark Shand
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There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical…
— Mark Shand
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People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.
— Mark Shand
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in…
— Karen Maitland
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Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours…
— Aristotle
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Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as…
— Aristotle
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For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place…
— Adrian Belew
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Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.
— Michael Koryta
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve,…
— Gavid Hood
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying…
— Pablo Picasso
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An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
— Lazarus Long
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PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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So... the elephant says to the camel why do you have 2 boobs on your back? the camel replies that's a pretty stupid question coming…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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An old proverb says: an elephant never minds barking dogs, but highlight is that the dog 'keeps barking even with no reaction' from the elephant.
— Melchor Lim
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A lot of people get a monkey off their back in order to make room for an elephant.
— Superman
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If you want to destroy your enemy, give him an elephant as a gift.
— Vikrant Parsai
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What's the point of blurring out the middle finger on TV. It's not like you had me fooled. What's behind it...an umbrella? An elephant?
— Celeste Hartman
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