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"An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it."
"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant, The only harmless great thing."
"His services are like so many white elephants, of which nobody can make use, and yet that drain one's gratitude, if indeed one does not feel bankrupt."
"The torn boughs trailing o'er the tusks aslant, The saplings reeling in the path he trod, Declare his might — our lord the Elephant, Chief of the ways of God."
"In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant — a new Elephant — an Elephant's Child — who was full of 'satiable curiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions."
"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
"Th' unwieldy elephant, To make them mirth, us'd all his might, and wreathed His lithe proboscis."
"Elephant-ear-witnesses-to-be of hymns and glorias, these ministrants all gray or gray with white on legs or trunk, are a pilgrims'pattern of revery not reverence — a religious procession without any priests, the centuries-old carefullest unrehearsed play."
"Not that I think much depends On how we treat our feathered friends, Or hold the wrinkled elephant A nobler creature than my aunt. It's simply that I'm sure I can Get on without my fellow man."
"Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar. Would I please come and do something about it?"
"The people deck him like a docile king of elephants."
"Women and elephants never forget an injury."
"That is like people blind by birth in, when viewing an elephant."
"The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy: his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure."
"I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band, I saw a needle that winked its eye. But I think I will have seen everything When I see an elephant fly.I saw a front porch swing, heard a diamond ring, I saw a polka-dot railroad tie. But I think I will have seen everything When I see an elephant fly.I seen a clothes horse, he r'ar up and buck And they tell me that a man made a vegetable truck I didn't see that, I only heard But just to be sociable I'll take your wordI heard a fireside chat, I saw a baseball bat And I just laughed till I thought I'd die But I'd be done see'n about everything when I see an elephant fly."
"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."
"A elephant's life is tedious, laborious and slow; I've been an elephant all me life so I blooming well ought to know."
"I'm an Introverted, Elephocentric, Hypochondriac, And I'll stick in the Elephant's nursing home Till I get me memory back!"
"I suffer from Schizophrenia It comes on me in spells Sometimes I'm King of Armenia At others I'm Orson Welles. I tell them I'm Napoleon and all that sort of bunk They never guess that all the time I'm laughing up me trunk!"
"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured."