“Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.”
Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
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Robert Jordan305
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Gavin Free (1988) English filmmaker
"Let's Play Minecraft - Episode 91 - Darwin Awards" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3moj3zGYzk. youtube.com. February 21, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
This quotation has been misattributed to Laozi; its origin is actually unknown (see "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" on Wiktionary). This quotation has also been misattributed to Confucius and Guan Zhong.
Misattributed
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
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.
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Critic as Artist
Louis-ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) French writer
To the Fidgeting Lunatic
in Albert Paraz, Le Gala des Vaches, Éditions de l’Élan, Paris, 1948 ; À l'agité du bocal, et autres textes de L.-F. Céline, l'Herne / Carnets de l'Herne ISBN 9782851976567 2006, 85 p. ; To the Fidgeting Lunatic (Céline on Sartre), translation by Constantin Rigas.
