I be more hipper than a hippopotamus Get off in your head like a neurologist
Marriage!. . . Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
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.
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A. M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.
Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.
