“An alert copyreader on a newspaper couldn’t believe it when he read a reporter’s account of the theft of 2025 pigs. That’s a lot of pigs, he thought, and called the farmer to check the copy. “Is it true that you lost 2025 pigs?” he asked. “Yeth,” lisped the farmer. “Thanks,” returned the copyreader, and corrected the story to read “two sows and 25 pigs.””

Humorous English (1961), p213

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American writer 1899–1995

Theodore Sturgeon book Venus Plus X

Section 38 (p. 118)
Venus Plus X (1960)

“A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 1 (Ellidyr)

“… I think I'm a pig: Pigs have got eyes, pigs have got mouths, pigs have got teeth, I've got friends who eat like pigs, I sound like a pig when I sleep.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

AronRa vs Ray Comfort (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants

“I am vegetarian. … I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs and I couldn’t stand the thought that they would have to go off to be slaughtered.”

Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician

" A welcome in the hillside http://www.camdennewjournal.com/welcome-hillside", interview with John Gulliver, in Camden New Journal (13 August 2015). <br class="br">2000s

“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”

James Altucher (1968) American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author

“You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

“He roared at me furiously for ten minutes after he finally managed to put out the sulky and determined fire, calling me a witless muttonheaded spawn of pig farmers-"My father's a wood-cutter," I said- "adOf axe-swinging lummocks!" he snarled.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“A pig painted gold is still a pig.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Matrim Cauthon
(15 November 1990)
Source: The Great Hunt

“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

Criticizing Hillary Clinton's health-care plan as being "eerily reminiscent" of the plan she advocated as First Lady, 11 October 2007 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-campaign10-2008sep10,0,311675.story <br class="br">2000s, 2007

“The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.”

Jan Neruda (1834–1891) Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist and writer

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