In a battle between elephants, the ants get squashed.

Thai proverbs
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He changes a fly into an elephant.

Romanian proverbs
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White elephant born in the forest.

Thai proverbs
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I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

quote by Charles Laughton
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When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

Uganda proverbs
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When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

Acholi proverbs
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

quote by Samuel Richardson
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The Elephant Bar

I have a simple question to ask you
Have you ever been to an Elephant bar?
Oh, you must, because it’s so quaint
One of my favorite restaurants so far

Why, everyone loves the Elephant
The statues in this place are so neat
And the food, oh such food they have
Each morsel is a scrumptious treat

I’ll tell you more about the food
Delicious in both taste and sight
Elephant size portions they advertise
They create meals that are perfectly right

Chicken salad that’s so good for you
They create the perfect blend of flavors
I always eat mine so slowly
Because it’s food that I truly savor

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poem by Marilyn Lott
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Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.

quote by William Faulkner
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One day cannot make an elephant rot.

African proverbs
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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

quote by Creighton Abrams
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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

quote by Jackie Kennedy
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Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

quote by Charlie Chaplin
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China Chopsticks African Ivory Lust

Chinese will not be happy until the last African
elephant is dead until the last world poached
elephant is dead poacher buyer dealer consumer
until last dropp of profit blood is vein drained

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Do not make an elephant out of a fly.

Russian proverbs
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An elephant cannot thin to a cow size.

African proverbs
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Do not compare a fly with an elephant.

Greek proverbs
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To make an elephant out of a mosquito.

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Elephant On The Telephone

There’s an elephant on the telephone
Who wants to make a trunk call
To the elegant but pleasant gent
That he calls his negligent uncle
Who had forgotten, since he’s not
An elephant with great foresight,
To tie a tight knot upon the spot
In his cotton handkerchief, a fortnight
Ago in November, so he’d remember
That December’s the time for going shopping
For expensive gifts he intends to fit
In the elephant’s huge Christmas stocking.

poem by C. Richard Miles
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Chains

In Chains

In the valley where I live there are no elephants
and that’s sad for the children who have to go
indoors and watch a wildlife program on TV to
see one of those magnificent creatures.

My valley is far from Africa and is full of olive,
lemon and almond trees that make the landscape
look like its been painted by Van Gogh, friendly
mules too lend ambience, but sadly no elephants.

Saw an elephant, once, at a fair it was chained to
rusty iron looked forlorn gloomy eyes that often
cried but it had resigned to its fate, that was a sad
sight to see an animal robbed of its natural dignity.

poem by Oskar Hansen
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