<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369123" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love is sharper than stones or sticks;<br>Lone as the sea, and deeper blue;<br>Loud in the night as a clock that ticks;<br>Longer-lived than the Wandering Jew.<br>Show me a love was done and through,<br>Tell me a kiss escaped its debt!<br>Son, to your death you'll pay your due-<br>Women and elephants never forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ever a man, alas, would mix,<br>Ever a man, heigh-ho, must woo;<br>So he's left in the world-old fix,<br>Thus is furthered the sale of rue.<br>Son, your chances are thin and few-<br>Won't you ponder, before you're set?<br>Shoot if you must, but hold in view<br>Women and elephants never forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down from Caesar past Joynson-Hicks<br>Echoes the warning, ever new:<br>Though they're trained to amusing tricks,<br>Gentler, they, than the pigeon's coo,<br>Careful, son, of the curs'ed two-<br>Either one is a dangerous pet;<br>Natural history proves it true-<br>Women and elephants never forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">L'ENVOI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prince, a precept I'd leave for you,<br>Coined in Eden, existing yet:<br>Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo-<br>Women and elephants never forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dorothy+Parker">Dorothy Parker</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369123" data-title="Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals de Dorothy Parker" data-description="Love is sharper than stones or sticks; Lone as the sea, and deeper blue; Loud in the night as a clock that ticks; Longer-lived than the Wandering Jew. Show me a love was done and through, Tell me a kiss escaped its debt! Son, to your death you'll ..."></div> </div> </div>

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