Pigs

Famous quotes containing the word pigs:

“Some people fear gaining fame the way pigs fear gaining weight.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I don’t like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meaner than I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)