Animal Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

— Henry David Thoreau

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…

— Ambrose Bierce

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…

— Ambrose Bierce

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

— Karen Joy Fowler

“As I remarked before, the Asiatic elephant is smaller than the African, which is frequently twelve feet high, and its tusks are in proportion.…

— Jules Verne

“The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.”

— Wayne Nakoneczny high school track coach

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to…

— Frans de Waal

“He was still as an oak trunk, silent as a candle.”

— Charlie N. Holmberg

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of…

— Henry Villard

It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you…

— Beyonce Knowles

“I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it, then I lay down on my father's grave.”

— Sharon Olds

Hand on my wood, same thang on my dash. Got the pop trunk glowing, lights say I'm having cash. I'm rolling on glass, paint…

— Killa Kyleon