Pigs famous quotes

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 today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.
-- A. A. Milne

#Morning #Food #Pigs

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Father #Awards #Pigs

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

#Brother #Sister In Law #Pigs

But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.
-- Aeschylus

#Men #Pigs #Praying

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.
-- Al Jardine

#Horse #Couple #Pigs

Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?
-- Al Swearengen

#Cutting #Blood #Pigs

Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
-- Al-Ghazali

#Dog #Men #Pigs

I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
-- Albert Brooks

#Pigs #Compliment #Bigs

The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Simple #Light #Pigs

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Heart #Pride #Pigs

Guys can look like pigs. The girl always has to be a looker. Look at most TV shows: According To Jim - pig and a looker. Still Standing - pig and a looker. Ralph Kramden [on The Honeymooners] - pig and a looker. Family Guy - pig and a looker. It's a theme.
-- Alex Borstein

#Girl #Family Guy #Pigs

Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away. "Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them. "You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?" "A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Eye #Pigs #Hands

You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you...
-- Alfred Bester

#Heart #Thinking #Pigs

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Pigs #Machines #Sausage

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ***** and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Heart #Character #Pigs

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Men #Thinking #Pigs

The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.
-- Amy Ray

#Crazy #Animal #Pigs

I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.
-- Andrea Dworkin

#Hate #Men #Pigs

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
-- Ann Richards

#Pigs #Hog #Stills

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Writing #Pigs #People

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Horse #Men #Pigs

There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is something delightfully lovable about a really clean pig, in clean yellow straw.
-- Barbara Woodhouse

#Pigs #Yellow #Baths

Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.
-- Ben Aaronovitch

#Country #Mean #Pigs

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Pigs #Dignity #Devotion

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
-- Beth Ditto

#Hair #Pigs #Personality

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
-- Beth Henley

#Pigs #People #Directors

I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.
-- Bill Bailey

#Pigs #Lucky #Concrete

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.
-- Bill Bryson

#Animal #Pigs #Asking

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.
-- Bill Gosper

#Errors #Pigs #Independence

Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
-- Bill Nye

#Animal #Oil #Pigs

You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.
-- Bob Akin

#Hard Work #Pigs #Racing

The man in the ***** skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.
-- Bob Dylan

#Men #Pigs #Expression

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.
-- Bobby Riggs

#Pigs #Numbers #Want

More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Pigs #Sharks #Years

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Pigs #Dancing #Security

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!
-- Bryan Cranston

#Pigs #Trying #Actors

Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
-- Cale Yarborough

#Dirty #Pigs #Enjoy

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
-- Camille Paglia

#Pigs #Healthcare #Guinea

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
-- Carolyn Kizer

#Teaching #Pigs #Class

Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.
-- Casey Affleck

#Pigs #Cows #Painful

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Flirting #Pigs #Trying

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Pigs #Mind #Desire

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

#Women #Pigs #Pot

(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.
-- Charles Lamb

#Grateful #Pigs #Might

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?
-- Charles Stross

#Religious #College #Pigs

Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.
-- Charlie Brooker

#Running #Men #Pigs

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Teacher #Pigs #Law

I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.
-- Clarice Lispector

#Writing #Pigs #Self

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room...
-- Claude Monet

#Sleep #Pigs #Devil

As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.
-- Cloris Leachman

#Drama #Cowboy #Pigs

I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.
-- Cloris Leachman

#Fighting #Pigs #Choices

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
-- Cornelia Funke

#Dog #Horse #Pigs

Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.
-- Craig Stone

#Love Is #Pigs #Sitting

Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.
-- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

#Dirty #Pigs #Enjoy

Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.
-- Cynthia Lord

#Pigs #Attention #World

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.
-- Darrell Royal

#Football #College #Pigs

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.
-- Dave Schulthise

#Pigs #Mind #Ends

I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows and pigs and realized I couldn't be a part of it any more. It was horrible. I did some research to make sure I could still obtain enough protein to fight and, once satisfied that I could, I stopped. I'll never go back.
-- David Haye

#Fighting #Animal #Pigs

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
-- Davy Crockett

#Pigs #Hands #Tails

Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
-- Don Meyer

#Basketball #Dirty #Pigs

You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.
-- Don Meyer

#Basketball #Jobs #Pigs

There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.
-- Doug Stanhope

#Pigs #Dainty

Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
-- E. B. White

#Pigs #Trying #Bed

But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.
-- E. B. White

#Pigs #Miracle #Ordinary

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Faith #Knowledge #Pigs

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.
-- E. Howard Hunt

#Pigs #Air #Promise

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.
-- Edward Felten

#Pigs #Dancing #Choices

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.
-- Edward Lear

#Pigs #Ducks #Figs

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.
-- Edward Lear

#Daughter #Men #Pigs

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, 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

#Pigs #Owl #Lovely

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.
-- Elayne Boosler

#Dog #Pigs #Congress

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
-- Eldridge Cleaver

#Pigs #America #Communist

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.
-- Elizabeth Bishop

#Pigs #Feet #Littles

Im a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.
-- Eric Stonestreet

#Pigs #Kansas #Cows

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.
-- Erich Leinsdorf

#Pigs #Numbers #Havana

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Thinking #Pigs #Together

Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?
-- Fats Waller

#Pigs #Feet #People

The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.
-- Faxian

#Country #Pigs #Vegetarianism

Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my ***** are in or out of a bra.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Pigs #Eyelashes #Style

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.
-- Forest Whitaker

#Summer #Pigs #Grandparent

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.
-- Frances Trollope

#Pigs #Sausage #Acquaintance

Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity.
-- Francis Crick

#Horse #Pigs #Ordinary

I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
-- Fred Hampton

#Pigs #People #Panthers

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
-- Fred Hampton

#Running #Fighting #Pigs

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.
-- Fred Hampton

#Pigs #People #Proletariat

When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.
-- Fred Shero

#Commitment #Pigs #Eggs

There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.
-- Fred Ward

#School #Pigs #Class

But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?
-- Frederick Marryat

#New York #4th Of July #Pigs

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron
-- Frederick Winslow Taylor

#Stupid #Men #Pigs

Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.
-- Gail Carriger

#Pigs #Two #Paris

It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.
-- Gardner Murphy

#Men #Pigs #Tree

What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.
-- Gary Yourofsky

#Pigs #Rabbits #Monkeys

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.
-- Georg Brandes

#Country #Pigs #Play

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Dirty #Naughty #Pigs

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
-- George Carlin

#Fun #Pigs #Voice

Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.
-- George Orwell

#Animal #Night #Pigs

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.
-- George Orwell

#Animal #Men #Pigs

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
-- George Sutherland

#Pigs #Nuisance #May

Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.
-- Georges Simenon

#Pigs

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.
-- Germaine Greer

#Sweet #Pigs #May