Top 48 Quotes About Rhinoceros
#1. Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
Myrtle Reed
#2. Now comes the difficult part: you must provoke the animal that is afflicting you. Tiger, rhinoceros, ostrich, wild boar, brown bear- no matter the beast, you must get its goat.
Yann Martel
#3. If your unicorn shifts disconcertingly between a goat, a horse, a rhinoceros, a marine mammal from the North Atlantic, assorted Tibetan ungulates and a six-eyed ass whose ears will terrify, the work of this book is almost done.
Chris Lavers
#4. What man I dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves shall never tremble.
William Shakespeare
#5. Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)
Nelson Mandela
#6. People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
Janet Jackson
#7. I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros ... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing.
Mel Gibson
#8. The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.
Winston Churchill
#9. a mantra she attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: women in politics, she said, "need to develop skin as tough as a rhinoceros hide.
Mark Leibovich
#10. There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.
Gautama Buddha
#11. It's okay. I'm a rhinoceros astronaut." She was silent a moment. "Oh, sparks. You're going delusional." "No, no. I mean, I'm surprising. I'll surprise him. What's the most surprising thing you can think of? Bet it's a rhinoceros astronaut.
Brandon Sanderson
#12. Forty-seven generations before, the King of the Southerners had stolen a rhinoceros out of the Northern King's private zoo. ( - That's it? - Wars have started for less. - But that's stupid. - Precisely.)
Patrick Ness
#13. I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
Yann Martel
#14. Even as the lion, not trembling at noises; even as the wind, not caught in a net; even as the lotus-leaf, untouched by the water - so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros!
Swami Vivekananda
#15. No matter what is doing the creating, I have to say that the giraffe and the rhinoceros are ridiculous.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#16. For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours.
Silas Sparkhammer
#17. Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.
Charles R. Swindoll
#18. The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
David Attenborough
#19. Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.
Lester B. Pearson
#20. He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite interesting: like having tea with a rhinoceros.
Stella Gibbons
#21. Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros.
Jeanette Winterson
#22. Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
Elvis Costello
#23. Faith is rather like a rhinoceros, in fact: it won't do much in the way of real work for you, and yet at close quarters it will make spectacular claims upon your attention.
Sam Harris
#24. Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros
Stuart Briscoe
#25. Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World
Eugene Ionesco
#27. But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!
Eugene Ionesco
#28. My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#29. But I have heard that he who is skilful in managing the life entrusted to him for a time travels on the land without having to shun rhinoceros or tiger, and enters a host without having to avoid buff coat or sharp weapon.
Lao-Tzu
#30. A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
Vance Havner
#31. Generally with women, I have the finesse and mental fortitude of a rhinoceros charging through a watering hole.
Kendall Ryan
#33. Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best, that's what I call meeting your rhinoceros.
Martha Beck
#34. To deal with life and her many challenges, you have to have thick skin like a rhinoceros".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#36. And that's when the rhinoceros drops from the sky.
Pittacus Lore
#37. If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
G.K. Chesterton
#38. They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience ... And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros.
R. Trall
#39. I am teaching ... It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
Anne Sexton
#40. Marsh had travelled on foot to the source of the Nile and once stood down a charging rhinoceros by intrepidly opening a pink umbrella in its face.
Wade Davis
#41. Insect, pup, or rat. It certainly seems to me that you don't know what he is, so maybe you should leave him alone...
'Gracious, Lorelei, you should have kept your mouth shut! Why not just call him a smelly rhinoceros wart while you're at it?' (Lorelei)
Kinley MacGregor
#42. What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros?
Eugene Ionesco
#43. A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.
Boyd Norton
#44. Trying to replace the common law with a rationally designed law is, he jests, like trying to design a better rhinoceros in a laboratory.
Matt Ridley
#45. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.
Peter S. Beagle
#46. Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,
Eleanor Roosevelt
#47. It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.
G.K. Chesterton
#48. I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
John Irving
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