
“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
"Sadie Thompson" in Altogether - Rain (1934)
“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
“You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.”
“When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine.
Pigs in Heaven”
“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.
Source: The Eleventh Commandment (1962), Chapter 17 (p. 157)
“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
“No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!”
Source: The Black Cauldron