Quotes with hippopotamus

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• 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
  British Author (1870 - 1953)
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• 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
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• 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
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• hippopotamus
• necessarily
• because
• flatten
• respect
• smaller

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