Elephants Quotes

364 Elephants quotes by 293 unique authors

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. — Ambrose Bierce
The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant. — Terry Pratchett
When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically… — Terry Pratchett
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. — John von Neumann
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft. — George Balanchine
I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me… — Thom Yorke
When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant. — Thom Yorke
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've… — Michael Morpurgo
As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is… — Mahatma Gandhi
This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the… — William Shakespeare
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than… — Gautama Buddha
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse. — Gautama Buddha
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme. — Gautama Buddha
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the… — Richard Bangs
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab… — John F. Kennedy
I still think I'm fat. Right now I'm worrying about how I'm going to lose weight after the pregnancy. I feel like an elephant, but… — Lily Allen
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and… — Jonathan Haidt
The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the riderâ€™s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the… — Jonathan Haidt
I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants,… — Jan Gehl
...the elephant smoked too much. — Victor Borge

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