Pigs

Here are some proverbs and quotes about pigs and piglets.

Pig and piglet
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A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Source: Animal Farm

As stupid as a pig's behind.

Do pigs really like mud?
Frans de Waal

Don’t cast pearls before swine.
Don’t give something of value to a person who does not value it.

Don’t slaughter more pigs than you can salt.

Mango among fruits, pork among meats, tea among leaves.

Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to fools.

Of the entire terrestrial vertebrate biomass on earth, wild animals constitute only about three percent, humans one-quarter, and livestock almost three-quarters!
Frans de Waal

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
George Orwell
Source: Animal Farm

The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens, cows and pigs are the most successful animals ever.
Yuval Noah Harari

The nice apples are always eaten by nasty pigs.

To put lipstick on a pig.
Trying to make someone or something look attractive when it clearly will not work.

Today's pig is tomorrows bacon!
Hunter S. Thompson




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