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Quotes About Pachyderms

Beware! the tower said. You are entering the realm of the Elephant King, a sovereign so rich in pachyderms that he can waste the gnashers of a thousand of the beasts just to decorate me.
~ Salman Rushdie
a sovereign so rich in pachyderms that he can waste the gnashers of a thousand of the beasts just to decorate me.
~ Salman Rushdie
What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
~ Jack Kingston
Malta has a rich and varied faunal history, including dwarf elephants and hippos, and a giant, flightless swan that stood taller than the island's pachyderms.
~ Tim Flannery
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.
~ Alex Shoumatoff