“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Eye of the World
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“How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,
The morne not waking til she sings.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) English politician
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“A pig among people is a pig, he tells himself, but a pig among pigs is people.”
Theodore Sturgeon book Venus Plus X
Section 38 (p. 118)
Venus Plus X (1960)
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The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
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