Elephants Quotes - Page 5

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

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

Letter 1 To the princess of the elephants, I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year. I will never be more of myself than in these letters. They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.