The Hippopotamus Quotes

#1. Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#2. The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

Erma Bombeck

#3. they knew what we're doing for them, they'd kiss our feet. But mentally they are closer to the crocodile and the hippopotamus than to you or me. That's why we decide what is good for them and have them sign those contracts.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#4. I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

Hilaire Belloc

#5. The hippopotamus is said to have a tender heart by those who have eaten that delicacy baked, so a thick skin is not necessarily a reliable index to what is inside the man.

Eric Temple Bell

#6. The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

T. S. Eliot

#7. I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#8. The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

Will Cuppy

#9. She was sitting up. She lifted and pulled at her blankets, but it was gone. The hippopotamus of wisdom was nowhere in sight.

Christopher Bram

#10. Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

Mitch Hedberg

#11. I went to the Hotel of the Violet Hippopotamus and drank five glasses of good wine.

Anton Chekhov

#12. Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo
and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#13. He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, 'because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.'
Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone.
Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.

Lewis Carroll

#14. A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

Alain De Botton

#15. There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Bertrand Russell

#16. I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

Zahi Hawass

#17. You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn't go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here.

Brandon Mull

#18. I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.

Deborah Moggach

#19. Once a month, a woman turns from a beautiful flower into an angry hippopotamus.

Grace Helbig

#20. The universal logo for a pizzahut is eight slices painted cross a disc of yellow plywood mounted in the mouth of a taxidermic hippopotapus.

Noah Wareness

#21. I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticides. So I turned to bear, caribou, venison, hippopotamus, buffalo, elk and moose. Taste-wise, buffalo and elk are tied for first. Not gamy, and loaded with protein. And very expensive, I might add.

Billy Casper

#22. A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#23. Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon's wool, because it goes better with the shoes than the one stitched with baby hair.

Nick Harkaway

#24. Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home.

Brandon Mull

#25. There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that's formalism.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#26. Has a confrontational ring to it, doesn't it? Like saying, the sky is rubber, or, your foot's a hippopotamus.

Terry Moore

#27. A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem ... biting into it!

Shel Silverstein

#28. When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

Donald Rumsfeld

#29. Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Phyllis Bottome

#30. I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Get off in your head like a neurologist

E-40

#31. There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud

Carl Sandburg

#32. They would probably search for him all over the zoo - the last place he'd been seen. He wondered if any evidence would implicate the hippo.

Brandon Mull

#33. It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Roger Caras

#34. [his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify

Stephen Fry

#35. Frankly, I couldn't be more astonished that this guy was involved in something like this than if you came riding through my apartment on a hippopotamus.

Dan Rather