Pigs

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

Pigs are ungulates native to Eurasia collectively grouped under the genus Sus within the Suidae family. They have been domesticated and raised as livestock by some peoples for meat (called pork) as well as for leather.

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• Pig, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
  • Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

• Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
  • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 852.

• You have a wrong sow by the ear.
  • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto III, line 580. Jonson—Every Man in his Humour, Act II, scene 1.

• Never try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and you annoy the pig.
  • 1973 Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (ISBN 0739419447); 1993 Dawn Steel, They Can Kill You But They Can't Eat You (ISBN 0671738321).

• If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.
  • Wheel of Time VI: p. 233.

• In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King
  • Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell III.

• How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
  • Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 221.

• The hog that ploughs not, nor obeys thy call,
  Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
  • Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle III, line 41.

• Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, ...Epicuri de grege porcum.
  • Translated: You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide,—...a hog from Epicurus' herd.
  • Horace, Epistolæ (Epistles), Book I, IV, 15, 16.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 775.

• The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.
  • William Mason, Heroic Epistle.

• Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
  • Matthew, 7:6.

• Then on the grounde
  Togyder rounde
  With manye a sadde stroke,
  They roll and rumble,
  They turne and tumble,
  As pigges do in a poke.
  • Sir Thomas More, How a Sergeant would learn to Playe the Frere.

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• Never wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will like it. - Irish proverb (virtually attributed falsely to anyone in the US)

• The chicken is involved but the pig is committed.

• There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs. - Catherine Zeta-Jones

• Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. - James Dean

• Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. - Irish Sayings

• If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. - Orson Scott Card

• Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them. - Danish Proverb

• Never trust a pig selling pork sandwiches. - Tom Robbins-Another Roadside Attraction