“Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without elephants to amuse them? What would the sick do without the sight of elephants to invigorate them?”

“The van stank of cabbage and cornered like a drunken elephant. It would do.”

“Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.”

“There is a legend that elephant dispose of their dead in secret burial grounds and that none of these has ever been discovered. In support of this, there is only the fact that the body of an elephant, unless he had been trapped or shot in his tracks, has rarely been found. What happens to the old and diseased?Not only natives, but many white settlers, have supported for years the legend (if it is a legend) that elephant will carry their wounded and their sick hundreds of miles, if necessary, to keep them out of the hands of their enemies. And it is said that elephant never forget" (206).”

“Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.”

“Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?”