Swine Quotes - Page 3

• Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Dirty, Snakes

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.

  James Patterson

  Flu, Lows, Fangs

  James Patterson (2007). “Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.

  Homer

  Drinking, Heart, Sleep

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• You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Warrior, Blood, Arrogant

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• An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Moving, Men

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• The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, War, Dirty

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

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• What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.

  William Shakespeare

  Killing

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• I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Misunderstood, Poet

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, People, Lame

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• Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Black, Insane, Monsters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Kentucky, Joy, World

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• Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

  Dorothy Parker

  Age, Pearls, Youth

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!

  Adolf Hitler

  Dog, Real, Unexpected

  Adolf Hitler (2008). “Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations”

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• Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wine, Mean, Play

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• Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Giving, Interesting, Advice

  Rosamond Lehmann (2012). “Invitation To The Waltz”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Office, Democracy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

  Frederick Douglass

  Horse, Men, Sheep

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.377, Courier Corporation

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• I will endanger your species like an ostrich,
  Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!

  Busta Rhymes

  Crazy, Rap, Ostriches

  Song: Do My Thing, Album: The Coming, 1996

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• I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, People, And Love

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• When I was diagnosed with swine flu, it was a big relief that Young Saeng was with me. When everyone wouldn't eat with me, Young Saeng was the only one who ate stuff like curry with me.

  Kim Hyun-joong

  Relief, Flu, Stuff

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• I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Ideas, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.141, Advaita Ashrama

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• And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Devil, Sexuality, Parables

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• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Sheep, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.439, Modern Library

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• ...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.

  Brian Stableford

  Coffee, Writing, Rejection

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• The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it were, Godlike, but regardless of the strength he derives from it, his free will remains. We are always free to disown this immense grace, to abuse it. The Greatest Love may be betrayed. Fed on the Living Bread, we nevertheless conceal a part of ourselves which longs for swine's food.

  Francois Mauriac

  Men, House, Grace

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