Hog Quotes

• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  J. B. Morton

  Wife, Luck, Trying

  'By the Way' (1931) p. 282

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• It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

  Edna Ferber

  Caviar, Champagne, Ritual

  1952 Giant, ch.2.

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• Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Butterfly, Men

  Title of poem (1923)

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• A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

  Carol Tavris

  Sports, Baseball, Team

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• What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice, Gentleman, Dying

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

  Ann Richards

  Pigs, Stills, Earrings

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• Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

  Carl Sandburg

  Player, Cities, Chicago

  "Chicago" l. 1 (1916)

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• No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

  George Orwell

  Men, President, Doe

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• The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Opportunity, Men, White Man

  Interview with Ralph McGill, as quoted in "The Atlantic Monthly", November 1965.

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• If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

  Claude McKay

  Dignity, Spots, Hunted

  Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Hands, Names

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• But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

  Roald Dahl

  Crazy, Half, Want

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Debt, Used, Universe

  "They know him as God, but you can call him Harvey Weinstein" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2012.

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• I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Brother, Kids, Havens

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”

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• They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

  Quincy Jones

  One Day, Blind

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• Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

  Truman Capote

  Vices, Attention, Half

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.7, Vintage

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• I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

  Joni Ernst

  Cutting, Yale, Iowa

  "GOP Senate candidate vows to cut pork, cites experience 'castrating hogs'". www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Writing, Years, People

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

  Eric Bell

  Moving, Math, Cowboy

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• You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.

  Bob Parsons

  Tuxedos, Saddles

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• I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.

  Peter Jurasik

  Teacher, Acting, Actors

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• You see, I'm a mighty proud gal and I can't for the life of me, find any valid reason why anyone should lie about their origin or anything else for that matter. Frankly, I do not ascribe to the stupid theory of white supremacy and to try to hide the fact that I am a Negro for economic or any other reasons, if I do I would be agreeing to be a Negro makes me inferior and that I have swallowed whole hog all of the propaganda dished out by our fascist-minded white citizens.

  Fredi Washington

  Lying, Stupid, White

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• Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.

  Bernice L. McFadden

  Sweet, Cutting, Color

  Bernice L. McFadden (2001). “Sugar: A Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• EPMD in effect, I'm clockin' mad green
  Like Kermit the Frog, sloppy like Boss Hog,
  Girl was runnin' wild...ate her like a corn dog.

  PMD

  Girl, Dog, Rap

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