Elephant Jokes

Famous quotes containing the words elephant and/or jokes:

    So slowly the hot elephant hearts
    grow full of desire,
    and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
    hiding their fire.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    He left behind, as his essential contribution to literature, a large repertoire of jokes which survive because of their sheer neatness, and because of a certain intriguing uncertainty—which extends to Wilde himself—as to whether they really mean anything.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)