I leave you over 40 quotes of Elephants , The largest terrestrial animals that exist today and with more characteristics in common with humans than it seems. Especially if it is to adopt behaviors like mourning, altruism, compassion or self-recognition.
With a gestation period longer than any animal on Earth and a survival time of sixty to seventy years, these mammals are known to be one of the most intelligent mammals.
That is why I leave here a list of the most interesting phrases about elephants of philosophers, politicians, actors, among others. You may also be interested in this Animals and pets .
1- If you are neutral in cases of injustice, then you have chosen the side of the oppressor. But if an elephant has its foot above the tail of a mouse and you say you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. -Desmond Tutu.
2- Love will take an elephant through a keyhole. -Samuel Richardson.
3- When you face an"elephant", do it only once. -Creighton Abrams.
4. That elephants are so intelligent and men so beasts should be a matter of education. -Alejandro Dumas, father.
5- When you have an elephant by your hind legs and are trying to escape, it is best not to let it escape. -Abraham Lincoln.
6- Words are silly things so the best you can say is elephant. -Charles Chaplin.
7- Making movies tries to have absolute confidence; The challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant. -Look at Nair.
8- They say that in Africa elephants have a secret grave where they go to bed, relieve their wrinkled and gray bodies and then fly away. -Roberto McCammon.
9- If the elephants knew how strong they were, they would break the chains and leave the circus. -Unknown.
10- A novelist is like an elephant; An elephant that must pretend to forget. -Mary McCarthy.
11- Christians sometimes become elephants fearful of mice. You have the creator of the universe on your side, not to mention that you have been given eternal life. 'Whom or what will you fear?' Fear of anything other than God is an insult to God Himself. -Criss Jami.
12 - Your recklessness has a beautiful monstrosity, like the hind legs of an elephant. - James Elroy Flecker.
13 - The cat would be like a god for the elephant, if a mouse was eaten in front of him. - Charles of Leusee.
14 - Your ego is as big as an elephant. -Charmaine J. Forde.
15 - It is the ant, not the lion, whom the elephant fears. -Matshona Dhilwayo.
16. It is better to live alone; Avoiding all evil, being free of worries, as a elephant Walking alone in the woods. -Buddha.
17- There is no creature among the beasts of the world who has as much greatness and demonstration of power and wisdom of the Almighty God as the elephant. -Edward Topsell.
18- A king who always cares for his elephants as if they were his own children will always be victorious and enjoy the friendship of the heavenly world after death. -Kautiliya.
19- The woman and the elephant never forget. -Dorothy Parker.
20- When an elephant has problems even a toad can kick it. - Hindu proverb.
21- When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. - African proverb.
22 - Though your enemy be an ant, look upon him as an elephant. - Turkish proverb.
23- The dog is the companion of the man, the elephant is his slave. -Sir Samuel Baker.
24. The elephant has limbs, but none for politeness; His legs are legs out of necessity, not by chance. -William Shakespeare.
25- I resume my day of counsel, my elephant night at rest. -Cesar Vallejo.
26- If you want the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or the bureaucracy, it helps to know where you feel pain, but before you should be sure that you want your full attention - Kelvin Throop.
27 - An ant can show as much force as a elephant . -Stendhal.
28- Ask yourself, an elephant can be"swallowed"by one bite at a time. -Unknown.
29- A true philosopher is like an elephant; Never put your second foot on the floor until the first is firmly in place. -Fontenelle.
30- As the elephant withstands the arrows on the battlefield, I will also resist the abuse, because the behavior of the people is mostly low. -Buddha
31- The past is an immense rock that many would like to travel as if it were a freeway, while others, patiently, go from stone to stone, and lift them, because they need to know what is under them. Sometimes they get scorpions or scorpions, but it is not impossible that, at least once, a elephant( ...). -José Saramago.
32- A trap is destroyed when an elephant puts its foot in it. -Unknown.
33- I feel safer next to a herd of elephants than near any avenue full of banks and ATMs-Unfamiliar.
34- The masterpiece of nature is the elephant. The only thing great and harmless; The giant of the beasts. -John Donne.
35- Elephants are symbols of power and memory, harmony and patience, power and compassion. We are wrong with them, as we are with everything that invokes strong feelings in us. We love and fear them, kill them and worship them, see them as beasts of the moon with crescent tusks or clowns with baggy pants. -Unknown.
36. Enjoy watching, take care of your own mind, take yourself out of the way of misery, as is done with the elephant That has gotten into the mud. -Buddha.
37- Awake. Be witness to your own thoughts. The elephant carries himself out of the mud. In the same way that you carry yourself dragging your own laziness. -Buddha.
38. Be cautious where a lamb can wade and the depths where an elephant could drown. "Matthew Henry.
39. The elephant does not die from a broken rib. - African proverb.
40- An elephant does not get tired of loading its own trunk. -Proverb Burundi.
No matter how poor the elephant is, it will still be worth more than ten frogs. -Nigerian proverb.
42. A gentle hand could even lead an elephant through a single hair. - That Persian.
An elephant can blow its trunk and shake the world but can not control the ants that support it. -Alistair Cooke.
44- A colony of ants destined to become a great colony will become so no matter how many times it was destroyed by elephants. -Nigerian proverb.
45. The man who has ridden an elephant will not fear the barking of a dog. "Indian proverb.