Quotation Explorer - 'Elephant'

His ego was as big as an elephant - Charmaine J. Forde
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. - Fontenelle
While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl. -- Benjamin East - Jonathan Freedman
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas, how he got in my pajamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx
God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas. - Pablo Picasso
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change. - Seth MacFarlane
More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured. - William H. Gass
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
Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude; play with it and introduce it. - Donna Lynn Hope
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
I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire? - Laurell K. Hamilton
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. - Pablo Picasso
If you want to live longer and to be strong, intelligent, loving, and kind--then don’t follow a tiger. Follow an elephant. - Debasish Mridha
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx
Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant? - Virginia Woolf
An elephant is almost a unicorn! - Laura C Goodwin
How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake? - Sara Gruen
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-----
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.
the elephant can remember. - Agatha Christie
When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won’t be able to miss it. - Alejandro Jodorowsky
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