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“... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.”

Dies Fall Feet Sky Dying Bird Curious Elephants Graveyard Flopping

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.”

Firsts Feet Philosopher Elephants

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.”

Kind Ideas Whole Suffering Dies Causes Space Feet Disease Painful All Kinds Elephants Zoos Captivity

Author:Lily Tomlin

“Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!”

Dies Powerful Feet Most Powerful Elephants Ants

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad”

Littles Pain Feet Taste Humble Grass Honey Sugar Agony Elephants Sweetness Blades Ants Be Humble Blades Of Grass

Author:Sivananda

“The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.”

May Running Water Walks Feet Losing Streams Swim Elephants Lambs Running Water

Author:Pope Gregory I

“Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact, and partly by conjecture, is like Nebuchadnezzar's image, whose feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay.”

Philosophy Facts Feet Theory Pure Built Iron Elephants Clay Conjecture

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.”

Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation

“A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Feet Huge Fool Mouths Method Tired Proof Block Conclusion Elephants Chips Marble Sculpting Fool Proof

Author:David Gries