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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.


Tallulah Bankhead

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Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
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JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY Never wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
ANONYMOUS Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.
UNKNOWN I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
CYRUS CHING I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enc...
SADA THOMPSON The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but al...
GEORGE ORWELL An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig
JOHN RAY I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.
KESHA Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad chil...
DANISH PROVERB If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.
BOBBY RIGGS England once there lived a big
And wonderfully clever pig.
To everybody it was plain
...
ROALD DAHL Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Arguing with your Boss is like wrestling with a pig in mud. After a while you realize that while you...
ANONYMOUS The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-h...
JOEL SALATIN Arguing with a teenager is like wrestling with a pig in the mud...sooner or later you realize the pi...
FRANCIS SKRENES I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!
LLOYD ALEXANDER Thought I’d send this with Pig anyway. Harry stared at the word “Pig,” then looked up at the t...
J.K. ROWLING Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened t...
GEORGE ORWELL Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and ...
CATHERINE MARSHALL To the stars, on the wings of a pig.
JOHN STEINBECK It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
C.S. LEWIS Nice, Dex,” she sneered. “You couldn’t wait to get in her pants, could you? You’re a pig.”...
KARINA HALLE A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig.
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pi...
AMBROSE BIERCE Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a p...
AMBROSE BIERCE It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We got a lot of pig to cover.
LIZA TICHENOR PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity...
AMBROSE BIERCE The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Generally speaking, when we get better rains the pig numbers tend to go up; when we have droughts th...
TERRY PALMISANO Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake ...
AMBROSE BIERCE The choice is to have it inspected or to buy a pig in a poke.
TOM EARLY If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
GEORGE CARLIN the pig in the python.
RON GEBHARDTSBAUER You sullen pig of a manyou force me into the mudwith your stinking ash-cart!
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer.
BRENTSON BUCKNER Everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer,
BRENTSON BUCKNER I'm like a pig in mud.
LORRAINE ZDEB I guess nobody wants to be the guinea pig.
BOB ORR I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.
RONALD REAGAN She ate like a little pig and she was always big and heavy. It stuck and we could never quite get ri...
ERIC FORSMAN The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart...
OGDEN NASH Don't buy a pig in a poke
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL He's a pig and I don't allow livestock in the house.
ERIN MCCARTHY God didn't do that! You did it. You're a fucking narcotics agent! I was on to your stinking act from...
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS My place is a pig pen mess.
ED LYNCH Flora threw herself forward at the signal, and the men standing nearby cheered. Two of them ran alon...
CHRIS KURTZ They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!
BERNARD CORNWELL These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice
JAPANESE PROVERB When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power do...
JOHN PAUL STEVENS The pig is an outstanding model to study human diseases. Understanding the pig genome should provide...
MAX ROTHSCHILD Don’t stab the pig and then eat its bacon
CHARMAINE J FORDE Just her, three men, a fidgety pig and lawful intent.
CHINA MIéVILLE I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig.
ALISON GOLDFRAPP Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such...
ALBERT EINSTEIN A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
PROVERB A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
SPANISH PROVERB A pig bought on credit is forever grunting
SPANISH PROVERB The world's quiet and the pig is in the sty.
IRISH PROVERB they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we’ll come and get you at five o’clock ...
J.K. ROWLING Here's a cute little fish. It kind of looks like a pig and it squawks and everything.
CHUCK JOHNSTON Here's a cute little fish. It kind of looks like a pig, and it squawks and everything.
CHUCK JOHNSTON The ultimate beneficiary of the pig genome project is really not the pork producer, it's the consume...
MAX ROTHSCHILD Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A sma...
E.B. WHITE I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead...
STIEG LARSSON The pig may have moved through the python.
JOSEPH GRUNDFEST Yeah, everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer, ... We just laugh about it. Because if you look at him and...
BRENTSON BUCKNER You can't fatten the pig on market day.
JOHN HOWARD What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig.
TERRY PRATCHETT I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
MARLON BRANDO If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we’ll come and get you at five o’clo...
J.K. ROWLING Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.
LEON BLOY Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
SCOTT WEILAND He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-s...
STEPHEN KING Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN In a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON In business I want to be a pig because pigs get fatter and hogs gets slaughtered.
FELIX SABATES Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.
ICE CUBE I've changed dresses four times - I'm sweating like a pig.
EVA LONGORIA You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
BILL CLINTON Every year a farmer in the area donates a pig for the temple on this day. There are fifteen farmers,...
CHUN HUANG When there's no agenda and no real message what happens is you can't really have a message. You can ...
JOHN BOEHNER Oh, we're just taking care of our pig.
LIZA TICHENOR She was a bourgeois pig anyway. Her husband is a doctor,
EMILY HARRIS "A pig has just as many rights as a man." 1984
LARRY FLYNT I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If we pursue this, we would be the guinea pig.
BILL HIDELL I truly believe it's here to stay. I'm proud we were the guinea pig.
BUTCH BUCHHOLZ This is like putting lipstick on a pig. Anyway you dress it, it is bad policy.
JOY OLSON Even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in awhile
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