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
One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, An'taking home a'load' with manly pride; My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came up an' lay down by my side. Then we sang 'It's all fair weather when good fellowsget together,' Till a lady passing by was heard to say: 'You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses', And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
Benjamin Hapgood Burt— 1933 'The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away'.
And hey there little sexy pig, you made it with a manAnd now you've got a little kid with hooves instead of hands.
devendra banhart— -Little Yellow Spider
My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I’m an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.
gianluigi buffon— Buffon, as quoted in Football Italia (07/01/07)
pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
Eldridge Cleaver— Soul on Fire (1978)
To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant. Collins's racist comment has focused my mind on the fight and I will beat him.
steve collins— Chris Eubank[3]
When I was just a little girl in East Bay, California, I noticed that East Bay was pig Latin for “beast.” But I knew I had found my niche when I realized that Alice Faye was pig Latin for "phallus."
robert patrick— " Pouf Positive"
Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of the Javanese or the Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence. His nose, broken in childhood by a self-inflicted blow with a hockey stick, has a prehensile tip, ever quick to smell out an insult; at the least suspicion of an affront, Perelman, who has the pride of a Spanish grandee, has been known to whip out his sword-cane and hide in the nearest closet.
s. j. perelman— The Best of S. J. Perelman, Introduction (1947)
— The Introduction was written under the name "Sidney Namlerep".
When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.
fred shero— Jackson, Jim, Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now
"You want a pig," said Roger, "like in a real hunt." "Or someone to pretend," said Jack. "You could get someone to dress up as a pig and then he could act you know, pretend to knock me over and all that " "You want a real pig," said Robert, still caressing his rump, "because you've got to kill him." "Use a littlun," said Jack, and everybody laughed.
william golding— Ch. 7: Shadows and Tall Trees
A pig painted gold is still a pig.
robert jordan— Matrim Cauthon
You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
robert jordan— Lini (The Shadow Rising (15 September 1992))
If a cartoonist wants to satirise Islam by drawing Mohammed, I’m on his side all the way. But among the 13,000 pictures on the EDMD Facebook page, you have Mohammed as a dog in a veil, Mohammed as a pig and Mohammed as a monkey. That’s not resistance, but picking a fight.
— Hugo Rifkind, Hugo (May 25, 2010). "This is a poor way to draw attention to intolerance". The Times (London).
I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great, wig." "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig." "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig, And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."
— George Colman the Younger, Orator Prig.
It is impossible to teach a captured wolf, and impossible to teach a pig to walk along a road.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
Courage! There's always hope.
a. a. milne— From The House at Pooh Corner (1928), said by Piglet.
It's so much more friendly with two.
a. a. milne— From Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), said by Piglet.
Piglet was so excited about the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more.
a. a. milne— From Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).
And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.
Edward Lear— Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, "The Jumblies" (1871)
'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?' Said the Piggy,'I will.'
Edward Lear— 1871Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.
