Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

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.

Ashley Monroe

I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs.

Dabney Coleman

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

When they think of pigeons they think of something wild.

Abraham Lincoln

There are too many pigs for the teats

Albert Einstein

Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.

Adolf Hitler

I looked at [Goering eating sausage] and I knew that what they say was true: that pigs eat the flesh of their own.

A. A. Milne

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

A. A. Milne

WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh. Just here,' said Eeyore. Made of sticks?' Yes' Oh!' said Piglet. What?' said Eeyore. I just said "Oh!"' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.

A. A. Milne

What I like doing best is Nothing.

Alan Alda

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

We come to these races every year. It's just fun. Where else can you go to see pigs race?

William Shakespeare

Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!

William Shakespeare

Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

William Shakespeare

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares...

Albert Brooks

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

Alexander McCall Smith

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

E. Howard Hunt

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.

Doug Stanhope

There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.

Claude Chabrol

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

E. B. White

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.

E. B. White

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.

E. B. White

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

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.

Confucius

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

Andy Rooney

Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

Ann Richards

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

Chuck Palahniuk

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Ambrose Bierce

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

Jane Addams

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.

Bob Newhart

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

David Weber

Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.

Edward Lear

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.