I leave you the best phrases of elephants, the largest land animals that exist today and with more characteristics in common with human beings than it seems. Especially when it comes to adopting behaviors such as grief, 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 animals are known to be one of the most intelligent mammals.
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- Elephants are symbols of power and memory, harmony and patience, power and compassion.
- The masterpiece of nature is the elephant. The only thing great and harmless; the giant of beasts. -John Donne.
- The woman and the elephant never forget. -Dorothy Parker.
- When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. -African proverb.
- Even if your enemy is an ant, look at him as if he were an elephant. -Turkish proverb.
- An elephant never tires of carrying its own trunk. -Burundi proverb.
- No matter how poor the elephant is, it will still be worth more than ten frogs. -Nigerian proverb.
- The man who has ridden an elephant will not fear the barking of a dog. -Indian proverb.
- If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. -Desmond Tutu.
- When you face an elephant, do it only once. -Creighton Abrams.
- That elephants are so intelligent and men such beasts must be a matter of education. -Alexander Dumas father.
- When you have an elephant by its hind legs and it is trying to run away, it is better not to let it escape. -Abraham Lincoln.
- Words are silly things so the best you can say is elephant. -Charles Chaplin.
- The challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant. -Look Nair.
- They say that in Africa elephants have a secret grave where they will lie down, relieve their wrinkled and gray bodies and then fly away. -Roberto McCammon.
- If elephants knew how strong they are, they would break their chains and leave the circus.
- A novelist is like an elephant who must pretend to forget. -Mary McCarthy.
- Your recklessness has a beautiful monstrosity, like the hind legs of an elephant. -James Elroy Flecker.
- The cat would be like a god to the elephant, if he ate a mouse in front of him. - Charles de Leusee.
- His ego is as big as an elephant. -Charmaine J. Forde.
- It is the ant, not the lion, whom the elephant is afraid of. -Matshona Dhilwayo.
- It is better to live alone; avoiding all evil, being carefree, like an elephant walking alone in the forest. -Buddha.
- There is no creature among the beasts of the world that has such greatness and demonstration of power and wisdom of the almighty God as the elephant. -Edward Topsell.
- A king who always cares for his elephants as if they were his own children will always be victorious and will enjoy the friendship of the heavenly world after death. -Kautiliya.
- When an elephant is in trouble, even a toad can kick it. -Hindu proverb.
- The dog is man's companion, the elephant is his slave. -Sir Samuel Baker.
- The elephant has limbs, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs out of necessity, not by chance. -William Shakespeare.
- I resume my day of counseling, my elephant night at rest. -Cesar Vallejo.
- An ant can show as much strength as an elephant. -Stendhal.
- Measure yourself, an elephant can be swallowed one bite at a time. -Unknown author.
- A true philosopher is like an elephant; He never puts his second foot on the floor until the first is firmly in place. -Fontenelle.
- Just as the elephant resists the shooting of arrows on the battlefield, I will also resist abuse. -Buddha
- A trap is destroyed when an elephant puts his foot in it. -Unknown author.
- I feel safer next to a herd of elephants than near any avenue full of banks and ATMs - Unknown author.
- Enjoy watching, take care of your own mind, get yourself out of the way of misery, as is done with the elephant that has gotten into the mud. -Buddha.
- Awake. Witness your own thoughts. The elephant loads himself out of the mud. In the same way that you have been dragging your own laziness. -Buddha.
- Be cautious where a lamb can wade and the depths where an elephant could drown. -Matthew Henry.
- The elephant does not die of a broken rib. -African proverb.
- A gentle hand could even guide an elephant by a single hair. - Persian saying.
- An elephant can blow its trunk and shake the world, but it cannot control the ants that support it. -Alistair Cooke.
- A colony of ants destined to become a large colony, will become one, no matter how many times it was destroyed by elephants. -Nigerian proverb.