
AronRa vs Ray Comfort (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants
"Let's Play Minecraft - Episode 91 - Darwin Awards" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3moj3zGYzk. youtube.com. February 21, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
AronRa vs Ray Comfort (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.”
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
2000s, 2007
“Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.”
Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”
Initially attributed to Cyrus S. Ching in Time, Vol. 56 (1950), p. 21.
Misattributed
Variant: Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
“You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.”
“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 1 (Ellidyr)
“A pig among people is a pig, he tells himself, but a pig among pigs is people.”
Section 38 (p. 118)
Venus Plus X (1960)
“My shoe has caught a Pig
I am a Pig Trap”
Pig poetry http://www.porkopolis.org/lib/poetry/hawkins-s.htm