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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Daniel Handler

I’m happier than a pig eating bacon!

Dan Barber

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.

Bruce Schneier

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

Brian Henson

First of all, you're improvising through a puppet, so you're not always yourself: you're a cow or you're a pig or you're an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you're a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that's what you get to be in the scene.

Edward Felten

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

Charles Dickens

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

Camille Paglia

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.

Mark Cuban

Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

Whether there are pigs (left) there or not, we have to see this thing through.

Bill Bailey

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