Get married and you will be happy for a week; slaughter a pig and you will be happy for a month; become a priest and you will be happy for the rest of your life.
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
You'll never make it out there. You weren't made for South Pole adventures." Flora gave her an icy look. "I think I know by now what I was made for.
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days...
When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and cursing. The dirty half flayed pig looked like something recovered fr...
We domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. And yet, in Europe, that practice has become illegal since 2001 as a result of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. It's unscientific. It's unnecessary. If you cook food for pigs, just as if you cook fo...
My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully i...
Moreno: So tell me something. How long have you been a pig, I mean, a police officer? Jake Hoyt: I've been a pig for 19 months. Moreno: 19 months? You like it? Jake Hoyt: I should have been a fireman.
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.
[Archie visits George, who is guarded by two policemen] Archie: We need to talk. George: You tell those pigs to fuck off. Archie: Fuck off, pigs. [the two policemen don't move] Archie: Did you hear what I said? Fuck off!
Paul Sheldon: The Sistine Chapel? Annie Wilkes: YEEEAAAHHH! That and "Misery's Child", those are the only two divine things in this world! [Annie chases her pet pig out of the room, then turns around and makes pig oink noises at Paul. Paul smiles thi...
[Gaston is face down in a mud wallow after Belle turns down his marriage proposal] Lefou: So, how did it go? Gaston: [grabs Lefou] I'll have Belle for my wife! Make no mistake about *that*! [throws Lefou in the mud] Lefou: [to the pig] Touchy! [the p...
My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.
When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts...
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.
Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do.
