hog quotes

It was part of theTexas ritual† We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

- Edna Ferber
  Giant, ch.2.

That man must be very much absorbed in reflection, or stupid, or sulky, or unhappy, or a mere hog at his trough, who is not moved to say something when he dines.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
Table-Talk,'Table- Talk'.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

-Michael) pseudonym Beachcomber
By the Way.

You can put lipstick on a hog, and it's still a pig.

- Ann Richards
  On Republicans'attempts to enhance their candidates. In Sunday Morning, CBS TV broadcast, 25 Oct.

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl.

-JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
c.1676  Of Dryden. Letter to Henry Savile. In The Letters ofJohn Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited byJeremyTreglown (1980).

Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

- Carl Sandburg
  Chicago Poems,'Chicago'.