
“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”
Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Eye of the World
“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”
Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Eye of the World
“When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine.
Pigs in Heaven”
“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
“How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,
The morne not waking til she sings.”
Cupid and Campaspe, Act v, Sc. 1. Compare: "Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gat sings,/And Phœbus 'gins arise", William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act ii, sc. 3.
“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)
The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)
AronRa vs Ray Comfort (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants