Quotes about hippopotamus

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Quotes about hippopotamus

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“There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

"The Expanding Mental Universe", Saturday Evening Post (July 1959)
1950s

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“When Reginald Iolanthe Perrin set out for work on the Thursday morning, he had no intention of calling his mother-in-law a hippopotamus.”

David Nobbs (1935–2015) British author and scriptwriter

Opening sentence, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Hilaire Belloc photo
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“Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

"The Hippopotamus" http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/848.html

Herb Caen photo

“A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 a. m. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.”

Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist

Caen, Herb. "A city is like San Francisco, not a faceless 'burb" http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/A-city-is-like-San-Francisco-not-a-faceless-burb-3168435.php S.F. Gate, 2010.
Attributed

“Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?”

Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian

Do You Believe in Gosh?

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