Elephants Quote by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

“Elephants are useful friends: they have handles on both ends.”

— Ogden Nash

“It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

— Mark Shand

It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant…

— Dan Chiasson

“Elephant Memories. William Morrow, 1988. Moss, Cynthia J., Harvey Croze, and Phyllis C. Lee, eds. The Amboseli Elephants. University of Chicago Press, 2011. Masson,…

— Jodi Picoult

“The only 'elephant' left in the room is love.”

— Benjamin Aubrey Myers

“The six elephants stood, roped each by the foreleg side by side in the vast thirty-foot tent put up several days since for their…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“An elephant trumpeted, raising its trunk into the sky, as they flew overhead. To the untrained eye, it seemed like a greeting. But Cecilia,…

— Brian Falkner

“When elephants fight, the grass suffers.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

“Elephants in all the worlds zoos in old age yearn until one morning they say we will set off on a journey carrying hidden…

— Mario Payeras

Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and - I have to say it - in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge,…

— Margrethe Vestager

“Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without…

— Paul Chambers