Mammal Quotes Page 2

• "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
  - Gene Spafford

• "Elephants never forget, but you seldom see a kangaroo with a zipper."
  - Unknown

• Out of Africa
  A herd of elephant...pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
  - Karen Blixen

• The Progress of the Soul
  Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant,
  The only harmless great thing.
  - John Donne

• Paradise Lost
  The unwieldy elephant
  To make them mirth used all his might, and wreathed
  His lithe proboscis.
  - A. A. Milne

• Just-So Stories "The Elephant's Child"
  An Elephant's Child - who was full of "satiable curtiosity".
  - Rudyard Kipling

• "Stealing a rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly."
  - Unknown

• "It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over."
  - Roger Caras about the Chinese Shar-pei

• "May a Misguided Platypus lay its Eggs in your Jockey Shorts"
  - Unknown

• Mammals are classified thus: man and the lower aniimals. Man does the classifying.

• The gnu's extraordinary movements... could only be described as something like an acute attack of St. Vitus's Dance.
  - Gerald Durrell

• The Elephant a joker of the animal kingdom, having a flexible nose.
  - Ambrose Bierce

• The deer in Richmond Park...come up close to people without the least fuss, and they show a preference for vegetarians.
  - Karel Capek

• I had a hippopotamus: I kept him in a shed
  And fed him upon vitamins and vegetable bread...
  He frolicked with the Rector in a dozen friendly tussles,
  Who could not but remark upon his hippopotamuscles.
  - Patrick Barrington

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