Elephant Quotes

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Desmond Tutu

History You Injustice Will Neutrality Oppressor Side Say Tail Neutral Foot Mouse Situations Your Chosen Elephant Appreciate

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 the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. Aristotle

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. Pierre Trudeau

You Matter Beast Living Every Sleeping Ways Some Like Call How Affected Friendly Next Elephant Twitch Grunt

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

Great Nature Harmless Only Great Thing Masterpiece Elephant Thing

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. Charlie Chaplin

You Words Say Cheap Biggest Biggest Thing Elephant Thing

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. Herb Caen

Funny Memory Remember Met Every Like Elephant Ever

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. Abraham Lincoln

Best You Run He Him Got Trying Legs Elephant Away

The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger - the girl. Arunachalam Muruganantham

Lion God World Strong Girl Creation Tiger Created Elephant

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. Noel Coward

Me Memory Fact Consult Like Often In Fact Elephant Elephants

The elephant can survive only if forests survive. Mark Shand

Only Forests Survive Elephant

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. Aaron Koblin

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 of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. Aristotle

Man Animals Wolf Others Wild Bat Wild Animals Easily Kinds Some Invariably Nocturnal Daylight Hours Tame Tamed Always Owl Leopard Use Ground Mule Elephant

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. Eddie Izzard

You Seen Never Been Acid Ski Elephant

I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange. Joseph Monninger

Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. Pete Hamill

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. Steven Wright

Pet Somewhere Lost Got Apartment Then Elephant

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school. Anthony Hopkins

School Like Because Understand Child Elephant Things

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Bull Hit Fiddle Elephant

I was so used to documentary filming, where it's one take. You can't really say, 'Make that elephant charge again!' And you talk to the camera. With movie filming, you're talking to someone else. Bindi Irwin

You Else Say Charge Someone Take Talk Documentary Make Talking Camera Where Movie Again Really Used Elephant Filming

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