White Elephant Sayings

#1. This year, Rebecca instituted a White Elephant gift exchange, that passive-aggressive method of conveying just how little the people you see more often than family mean to you via the splendor of craptastic gifting.

Qwen Salsbury

#2. The trip itself was the usual...adulation from all sides, rose petals strewn in my path everywhere I went, silver bells festooning the howdah on my private white elephant...you know the drill. I maintained my customary demeanor or regal calm and enigmatic silence throughout.

Charlotte MacLeod

#3. I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.

Victor Borge

#4. But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.

Leo Strauss

#5. She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

Jose Rizal

#6. I stared into the man's lifeless eyes. His face was blue, but it could've been from the cold. His body was bloated, but he could've just been fat. None of this explained the crows lining up on the tree branch though. --The Body By the Tree

Yawatta Hosby

#7. The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

Seth MacFarlane

#8. May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

Pope Francis

#9. How can you grow with your present to get ready for your future if you continue to live in your past and all that it contains.

Angelica Stevenson

#10. It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.

Brooke Hauser

#11. You know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her.

Dave Matthews