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The Death of Santini, for two years, I’ve tried to satisfy my great interior hunger with a diet that would satisfy a full-grown squirrel but did little to conquer the hippopotamus that lives within me. – Pat Conroy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Is a hippopotamus really a hippopotomus or just a really cool opotamus? – Mitch Hedberg	added by anonymous 9 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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 Babington Macaulay, 1850	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge. – J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"	added by anonymous 13 years ago

The Death of Santini, for two years, I’ve tried to satisfy my great interior hunger with a diet that would satisfy a full-grown squirrel but did little to conquer the hippopotamus that lives within me.

– Pat Conroy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Is a hippopotamus really a hippopotomus or just a really cool opotamus?

– Mitch Hedberg

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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 Babington Macaulay, 1850

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.

– J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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