Quotes of: Guinea-pigs Keyword

Don't give cherries to a pig; don't give advice to a fool.

Irish

Give your friend a pig and your enemy a peach.

Italian

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship o...

The Bell Jar

All chefs have pictures of food in their phones, stuffed pig's ears and pigs' heads and the like.

April Bloomfield

Don't slaughter more pigs than you can salt.

French

By the first glass a lamb, the second a lion, and the third a pig.

Hebrew

Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to fools.

Irish

It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close to you dies, a pet will be there to pick up the slack. Pets devour the loneliness. They give us purpose, responsibility, a reason for getting up in t...

Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon

Mathilda: [Mathilda, crying about her brother's murder and her stepmother] I was more of a mother to him than thaat goddamn pig ever was! Léon: Hey, don't talk like that about pigs. They're usually much nicer than people. Mathilda: But they smell li...

Léon: The Professional

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third,...

Christien Meindertsma

A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice.

Japanese

When a miser dies, the heirs feel as happy as when they kill a pig.

Maltese

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

The Black Cauldron

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

Alexander McCall Smith

[Timon and Zazu are cornered by hyenas] Timon: Please don't eat me. Pumbaa: Drop 'em! Banzai: Hey! Who's the pig? Pumbaa: Are you talkin' to me? Timon: Uh-oh, they called him a pig. Pumbaa: Are you talking to *me*? Timon: Ya shouldn't have done that....

The Lion King

You cannot make a beautiful plumage out of a pig's tail.

French

A pig used to dirt turns up his nose at rice.

Japanese