Pig Quotes
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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More Pig Quotes
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
— John Stuart Mill in Utilitarianism, Ch. 2
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
john stuart mill— 1863 Utilitarianism, ch.2.
We don't have to worry about making it interesting; all we have to worry about is getting rid of the pig.
— Three Uses of the Knife (1996)
A gross but deflated old man, of cringing manners, inarticulate in speech and with the hygiene habits of a pig, and could not conceive how a man so utterly devoid of self respect could ever have been selected as a personal physician by anyone who had even a limited possibility of choice.
theodor morell— Hugh Trevor-Roper interviewed Morell in 1945
When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights- whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.
bobby seale— Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
— "Death of a Pig," The Atlantic Monthly (January 1948)
Never try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and you annoy the pig.
— 1973 Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (ISBN 0739419447); 1993 Dawn Steel, They Can Kill You But They Can't Eat You (ISBN 0671738321).
The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act I, scene 2, line 44.
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the pig Empire is equally immoral.
abbie hoffman— Introduction, p. iv
Heap high the groaning platter with pink fillets, sucking pig and thick gammon, celestial chef. Be generous with the crackling. Let your hand slip with the gravy trough, dispensing plenty.
George Mann MacBeth— 1977 'An Ode to English Food'.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
— 1945 Animal Farm, ch.10.
You can put lipstick on a hog, and it's still a pig.
Ann Richards— 1992 On Republicans'attempts to enhance their candidates. In Sunday Morning, CBS TV broadcast, 25 Oct.
"Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shillingYour ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
Edward Lear— St. 3.
When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.
robert ley— Quoted in The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze - Page 529
When the pig is proffered, hold up the poke.
— "Seize the bargain."
— John Heywood (1562). The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood .... Print. for subscribers, by the Early English Drama Society. p. 422.
— Strauss (1994). "1787". Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs. Routledge.
"A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy."
lloyd alexander— Chapter 1 (Ellidyr)
I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
julian assange— Of allegations of sexual assault
It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
john stuart mill— Ch. 2 (Ch. V: Applications)
"In any case, I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig – lots of screams but little wool."
vladimir putin— On not wanting to deal with the US re: Edward Snowden, 25 June 2013 [30]. guardian.co.uk
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
igor stravinsky— 1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated? (If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine’s memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?)
charles stross— Chapter 4 (“Halo”), pp. 146-147
I shall draw... a figure (which all these matters are made clear as far as possible on a surface, but the full demonstration would require a body like the eye... The eye of a cow, pig, and other animals can be used for illustration, if anyone wishes to experiment.
— v. i. iii. 3, ed. Bridges as quoted in A.C. Crombie, Robert Grossetest and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)
Weke, weke! so cries a pig prepared to the spit.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (c. 1584-1590), Act IV, scene 2, line 146.
Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.
— As cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 535 ISBN 1586486381
The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.
a. a. milne— Winnie the Pooh (1926), Chapter One.
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what's the first thing you say to yourself?” “What's for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?” “I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting to-day?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It's the same thing,” he said.”
a. a. milne— From Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
a. a. milne— From Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), said by Piglet.
My memory...hehe. King Robert Baratheon...murdered by a pig. Give me something for the pain, and let me die.
— Who: King Robert Baratheon
— Source: Episode 1x7, "You Win or You Die"
— Note: Character has been mortally wounded by a boar he was hunting. He clings to life long enough to entrust his kingdom to the regency of his friend Ned Stark until his "son" Joffrey comes of age. Ned knows that Joffrey is in fact not Robert's child, but cannot bring himself to hurt his friend on his deathbed with the truth.
