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Latest comment: 14 years ago by Frappyjohn

I was trying to verify the "I am fond of pigs... " quote featured in the sidebar on this page. It doesn't appear on the Winston Churchill page of WikiQuotes!Frappyjohn 17:22, 28 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

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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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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  • [Describes visiting a factory-farm shed where she saw a large male boar,] his huge head hanging low towards the barren floor. As I came level with him he raised his head and dragged himself slowly towards me on lame legs. With deliberation he looked straight at me, staring directly into my eyes. It seemed to me that I saw in those sad, intelligent, penetrating eyes a plea, a question to which I had no answer: "Why are you doing this to me?"
  • Animal behaviourists consider pigs to be highly intelligent, and people who’ve spent time with them have discovered that they enjoy listening to music, playing with footballs, and being massaged. (I can relate!) Yet, by the time you finish reading this article, thousands of these smart animals – who are every bit as sensitive as the dogs and cats we share our homes with – will have been killed just to be put in a sandwich. For many of them, the first time they feel the warmth of the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air is when they’re loaded onto a lorry bound for slaughter. I’m not comfortable contributing to all that suffering – and I’m not the only one.
  • We can make an animal without a heart. We have engineered pigs that lack skeletal muscles and blood vessels.