Swine Quotes

• I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.

  Michele Bachmann

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

  "Michele Bachmann wrong that swine flu broke out under Carter" by Bill Adair, www.politifact.com. April 30, 2009.

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• You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

  Edward Albee

  Truffles, Shows

  1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, act 2.

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• Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Animal, Reflection

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

  George D. Prentice

  Marijuana, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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• In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Pigs, Hunters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

  Samuel Butler

  Truth, Pearls, Rich

  Samuel Butler, Hudibras (fict.name.) (1835). “Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash”, p.311

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• I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

  Ezra Pound

  Suicide, Suicidal, Literature

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• The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Lord, Hog, Labour

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.403

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• Never cast pearls before swine.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pearls, Casts, Pearls Before Swine

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• Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

  Gertrude Stein

  Girl, Men, Literature

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• All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Men, Sometimes

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• From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd.
  [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]

  Horace

  Cute, Shining, May

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• One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Art, Creativity

  "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.

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• God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Degenerates, Mercy

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• Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

  Phil Gingrey

  Ebola, Migrants, Viruses

  "GOP congressman: Ebola could spread across the border". www.msnbc.com. July 15, 2014.

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• We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.
  Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.
  While the media elite declare what to think,
  I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

  Otep Shamaya

  Sleep, Thinking, Sheep

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• But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you’re kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Brother, Kindness

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.151, Macmillan

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• Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Thinking, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Self, Decision

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Bird, Hiv

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• Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

  Agatha Christie

  Liars, Men, Eyelashes

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

  Henry George

  Human Nature, Enough, Showers

  Henry George, Kenneth C. Wenzer (1997). “An Anthology of Henry George's Thought”, p.2, University Rochester Press

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• In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile - and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Winning, Sheep, Pigs

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Running, Children, Play

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.44, Arktos

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