(91 quotes found)
“When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled”
African Proverb
“Did I ever tell you how I shot a wild elephant in my pyjamas? How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know.”
Groucho Marx
“Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.”
W. C. Fields
“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.”
Charlie Chaplin
“When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise?”
Terry Pratchett
“A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair”
Iranian Proverb
“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant - the only harmless great thing.”
John Donne
“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.”
Indian Proverb
“By going to the den of a lion pearls from the head of an elephant may be obtained; but by visiting the hole of a jackal nothing but the tail of a calf or a bit of the hide of an ass may found.”
Chanakya
“When eating an elephant take one bite at a time”
Creighton Abrams
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