Rhinoceros Quotes

• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Funny, Education, Teaching

  "Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking". Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.

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• You can only predict things after they have happened.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Happened

  'Le Rhinocèros' (1959) act 3

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• Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

  Madame Roland

  Freedom, War, Names

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• Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

  Eugene Ionesco

  Names, Crime, Submission

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• Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Heart, Two, Leader

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• 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

  Exercise, Weather, Black

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Firsts, Authority

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• It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Oddities, Feelings

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.7, Souvenir Press

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• For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Funny, Success, Art

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• What man 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

  Men, Nerves, Shapes

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 99

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• 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

  Children, Heart, Should Have

  Vance Havner (1988). “The Best of Vance Havner”, Baker Publishing Group

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• 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

  Animal, Rhinos, Way

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• Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Skins, Needs, Tough

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doe, Looks, Interviews

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Interesting, Stronger, Bitter

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• People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.

  Janet Jackson

  Hurt, People, Skins

  "Janet Jackson Takes Control" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Mom, Baby

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• 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

  Animal, Vegetables, Elephants

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• Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Skins, Thick

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• Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Sea, White

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• 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

  Animal, Age, Yards

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• I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

  Anne Sexton

  Education, Teaching, Kind

  "Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters".

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• If a woman wants to succeed in the public arena, she needs to grow skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros. I have certainly, as you can tell, have had to learn how to do that, and there's a lot of good moisturizers I can tell you about if you're interested. The second thing is to learn how to take criticism seriously but not personally.

  Hillary Clinton

  Criticism, Skins, Needs

  "7 times Hillary Clinton handled fashion haters like a boss" by Chrissy Mahlmeister, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2015.

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• 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

  Rhinos, Bird, Be Kind

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• 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

  Grief, Evil, Arise

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