
“Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.”
“Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea”
Gene Spafford's Personal Page: the Quotable Spaf http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/quotes.html
Context: Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Mīrābāī, in “Christian Mysticism East and West: What the Masters Teach Us “, p. 122
NDTV NDTV http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india-is-a-beehive-rahul-gandhi-tells-india-inc-350053
“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”
On a 1962 visit to India quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin
“The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, buffaloes, elephants and me.”
From his print ad for PETA, in “‘Strongest Man’ Eats Plants, Loves Animals,” in peta.org (21 November 2011) https://www.peta.org/blog/strongest-man-eats-plants-loves-animals/.