Hog Quotes - Page 4

• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Winning, Gambling

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• I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

  Daughn Gibson

  Kids, Drug, Safe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd.
  [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]

  Horace

  Cute, Shining, May

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• A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all of Heaven in a rage. Think to yourself that every day is your last. The hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus's herd.

  Hannibal

  Thinking, Laughing, Heaven

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• There isn't enough planet for everyone to eat as much meat as the United States does. The meat industry is responsible for a dead zone the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico every year because of the runoff through the Mississippi - runoff from hog farms basically nukes the water.

  Raj Patel

  Water, Enough, Responsible

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• My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.

  Ralph Stanley

  Mother, Real, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

  Carolyn Chute

  Christian, Religion, Born Again

  Carolyn Chute (2008). “The Beans of Egypt, Maine”, p.161, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Two, Feet

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• Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Two, Duration

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.375, Vintage

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• American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Horse, Gun, Nuts

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• To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
  [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

  George Herbert

  Feet, Giving, Philanthropy

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• Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

  Washington Irving

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”

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• I hunt feral hogs. I try not to shoot creatures. That doesn't do anything for me. But big, nasty, smelly, bristly things with tusks that destroy everything that they touch. Yeah, I'll shoot them.

  David Feherty

  Trying, Nasty, Yeah

  Source: gearpatrol.com

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• Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

  George Carlin

  Dog, Sleep, Cat

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

  Alice Childress

  Mother, Independent, Ice

  Alice Childress, Kathy A. Perkins (2011). “Selected Plays”, p.194, Northwestern University Press

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• I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Hobbies, Barns, Strange Person

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• Expect hogs to eat a lot more in the presence of a lot of hog wash.

  Charlie Munger

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• There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Doors, Two

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition”, p.352, NewSouth Books

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• The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity; the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Thinking, Boys

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• People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.'  How do I know what I might be if I were a white man?  I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day.  I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week.  There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am.  In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man.  But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  Bert Williams

  Song, Men, White Man

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• I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Soybeans, Littles

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.5, VNR AG

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• When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  People, Specialists, Knows

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• In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.

  Isak Dinesen

  Rare Person, Growth, Hot

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Roots, Acorns

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• Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

  George Michael

  Leather Jackets, Needs, Slides

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