How Many Elephant Legs?

Four legs good, two legs bad. - George Orwell

Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. - Jayne Mansfield

The elephant does not limp when walking on thorns. - African Proverb

The best part of him ran down his mother's legs. - Jackie Gleason

Don't feel pity for the rider's hanging legs. - Greek Proverb

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

There's more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. - English Proverb

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. - Henry David Thoreau

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs. - Bruce Barton

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce

It's a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs. - David Coleman

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat. - Todd Stocker

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. - Frederick Douglass

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. - Herb Caen

They invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs. - Martin Caidin

Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one. - WC Fields

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

If you fall out of that window and break both your legs, don't come running to me. - Groucho Marx

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. - Steven Wright

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. - Miss Piggy

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits. - Pete Rose

One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas.
How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

When you have an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln

His wallet is more capacious than an elephant's scrotum and just as difficult to get your hands on. - Blackadder

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs. - Katya Zamolodchikova

You describe the elephant by its size, but the mosquito by its impact. Even the smallest thing has an impact. - Celia Apeagyei-Collins

It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. - Terry Pratchett