Quotes about Elephant
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more at such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.
- Hilaire Belloc
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
- John Donne
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship. With few desires live alone and do no evil, like an elephant in the forest roaming at will.
- Anonymous
Nature's great masterpiece, an Elephant, the only harmless great thing; the giant of beasts.
- John Donne
The largest tusks are yielded by the African elephant, and find their way hither from the port of Zanzibar: they are noted for being opaque, soft or "mellow" to work, and free from cracks or defects.
- David Livingstone