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"Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true" »Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege." »Lawton Chiles
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong." »Elizabeth II
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"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
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"Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.." »Turkish Proverb
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"You type as fast as a one footed elephant." »Aaron J. Munzer
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"When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him." »Hindustani Proverb
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"An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications." »John Herro
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"Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place." »Fontenelle
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"I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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. (On relations with the US)" »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"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." »Kelvin Throop
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"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent." »Dr. Seuss
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"Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection." »Swordfish
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"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
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"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
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"Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am." »Bhartrihari
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"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge." »J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
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