Canada’s Concrete Pink Elephant

Mauve? Mauve is just pink trying to be purple. - James A. Whistler

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. - Lewis Mumford

The elephant can survive only if forests survive. - Mark Shand

Anything related to elephants is irrelephant. - Unknown

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice. - Fidel Castro

Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat. - Todd Stocker

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. - Herb Caen

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. - Steven Wright

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas.
How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx

When you have an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. - Ty Cobb

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

His mind is concrete and fastidious,
His nose is remarkably big;
His visage is more or less hideous,
His beard it resembles a wig. - Edward Lear