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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
Ambrose Bierce
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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

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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

robert jordan

— Thom Merrilin

Tags: Teach, him, you, never, play, flute

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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.

Tags: better, human, dissatisfied, satisfied, fool

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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)

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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

Tags: gross, old, man, cringing, manners, inarticulate, speech, hygiene, habits

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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)

Tags: When, we, use, term, example, referring, people, who, systematically

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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)

Tags: discovered, once, having, given, enema, there, turning, chance, one

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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).

Tags: Never, try, teach, sing, You, waste, time, annoy

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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.

Tags: capon, burns, falls, spit, clock, strucken, twelve

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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

Tags: steal, brother, sister, evil, institutions, pillars, Empire, equally, immoral

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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'.

Tags: One, evening, October, when, onethird, sober, home, manly, pride

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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

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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)

Tags: worst, vice, gluttony, try, keep, myself, under, control, athlete

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pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

Eldridge Cleaver

— Soul on Fire (1978)

Tags: power, America, infuriating, communist, framework, awesome, unaccountable

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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]

Tags: accused, ignoring, roots, ignorant, racist, comment, focused, mind, fight

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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"

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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".

Tags: Under, forehead, roughly, comparable, Javanese, man, visible, pair, tiny

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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

Tags: When, you, bacon, eggs, breakfast, chicken, makes, contribution, commitment

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"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

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A pig painted gold is still a pig.

robert jordan

— Matrim Cauthon

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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))

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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). 

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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.

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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)

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Courage! There's always hope.

a. a. milne

— From The House at Pooh Corner (1928), said by Piglet.

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It's so much more friendly with two.

a. a. milne

— From Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), said by Piglet.

Tags: two, friendly, more, Much, Piglet, Winnie the Pooh

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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).

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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)

Tags: Owl, useful, pound, Rice, hive, silvery, Bees, green, lovely

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'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'.

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