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8 Quotes for 'Swine' in the Database.
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Swine Quotes
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Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your
pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and
turn again and rend you.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. VII, v. 6)
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Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 852)
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You have a wrong sow by the ear.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 580)
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You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for
hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd.
[Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
. . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (bk. I, IV, 15, 16)
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The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.
Author: William Mason
Source: Heroic Epistle
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Then on the grounde
Togyder rounde
With manye a sadde stroke,
They roll and rumble,
They turne and tumble,
As pigges do in a poke.
Author: Sir Thomas More
Source: How a Sergeant would learn to Playe the Frere
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How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine,
Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!
'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier!
Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 221)
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 41)
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