Pigs Quotes - Page 16

• 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

  Two, Paris, Feet

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• Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?” “On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions.

  Scott Lynch

  Opinion, Said, Smarter

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1698, Del Rey

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• 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, Confidence, Soulmate

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• Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

  Mark Twain

  Dirty, Likes, Human Nature

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• When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Dirty, Holocaust, Mud

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• 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, Cities

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America”, p.38

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• 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

  Science, Men, Tree

  Gardner Murphy (1947). “Personality”

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• To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.

  Philip Kapleau

  Buddhist, Animal, Sheep

  Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco

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• Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

  John Dos Passos

  Country, Immigration, Why Not

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

  Hans Eysenck

  Science, Intelligent, Ordinary

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• Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Acceptance, Trying, Annoying

  "Fictional character: Judge Judy". "Judge Judy", www.imdb.com. (1996-).

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Dirty, Coaching

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• Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.

  Joan Rivers

  Grandchildren, Talking, Cows

  "Thanks for the Laughs, Joan Rivers: 47 of Her Greatest Jokes" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. September 04, 2015.

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• Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Funny, Dumb, Watches

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• She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

  Margot Asquith

  Sarcastic, Looks, Faces

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• In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Hunters, Swine

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Men, Might

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• 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, Science, Differences

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• What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Men, Political

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one?? Don't eat pork. God has spoken. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, God, Sorry

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• 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

  Painful Death, Cows, Factories

  YouTube Channel "peta2TV"/"Casey Affleck's Banned 'Go Vegan' PSA", February 06, 2013.

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• My mother comes in my room and says, "Just look at this mess! This is a pig sty!" Now, I've already been in the room five hours, and she wants me to LOOK at it.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Humor

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• When they played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig! Put him on a spit and put an apple in his mouth!"

  Brian Regan

  Funny, Men, Thinking

  "Brian Regan: The Epitome of Hyperbole". Stand up comedy, 2008.

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• At the end of the day, yes. It's all about the marbling and maybe a few other things along the way. But intramuscular fat, that's where you get a lot of flavor. Fat carries the flavor but in the last 50 years it's been bred out of pigs. When American chicken exploded in the 70's and became such a huge commodity, it took away pork sales. The pork industry suffered and had to change.

  Dan Barber

  Years, The End Of The Day, Way

  Source: www.starchefs.com

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