Beryl Markham Quotes
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
Beryl Markham
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I'm very concerned because I think the Jews want to drive the elephants to extinction because the trunk of an elephant reminds them of an uncircumcised penis. I'm absolutely serious about that... Jews are sick, they're mental cases.
Bobby Fischer
The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
George Bernard Shaw
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.
Plutarch
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.'
John F. Kennedy
Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
Katharine Hepburn
To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
E. Haldeman-Julius
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
Zero Mostel
The only way to progress, to try to develop, is to kill what was before, sacrifice it. Annihilate it, break it down.
Carl McCoy
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
Socrates
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
Beryl Markham
