James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Quoted in The New York Times (21 February 1960)
Letters and interviews
“Taking elephants across the Alps is not as much fun as it sounds. The Alps are difficult enough when alone, and elephants are peculiarly fitted for not crossing them.”
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal
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Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal
“Then Hamilcar … was drowned in 228 B. C. while crossing a stream with a herd of elephants.”
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal
“Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants”
Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”
John Von Neumann (1903–1957) Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath
Attributed to von Neumann by Enrico Fermi, as quoted by Freeman Dyson in "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" in Nature 427 (22 January 2004) p. 297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/427297a
Rahul Gandhi (1970) Indian politician
NDTV NDTV http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india-is-a-beehive-rahul-gandhi-tells-india-inc-350053
“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.”
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Ralph Venning (1621–1673) English minister
From the late 1640s, in Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (2002), p. 101.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Comments on members of the Republican party, in Remarks at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California (2 November 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 914, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library <br class="br">1960