One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, An'taking home a'load' with manly pride; My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came up an' lay down by my side. Then we sang 'It's all fair weather when good fellowsget together,' Till a lady passing by was heard to say: 'You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses', And the pig got up and slowly walked away.

-Burt, Benjamin Hapgood
  'The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked  Away'.

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

-Lear, Edward
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.

'Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?' Said the Piggy,'I will.'

-Lear, Edward
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.

Heap high the groaning platter with pink fillets, sucking pig and thick gammon, celestial chef. Be generous with the crackling. Let your hand slip with the gravy trough, dispensing plenty.

-MacBeth, George Mann
  'An Ode to English Food'.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

-Mill,John Stuart
  Utilitarianism, ch.2.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Animal Farm, ch.10.

You can put lipstick on a hog, and it's still a pig.

-Richards, Ann
  On Republicans'attempts to enhance their candidates. In Sunday Morning, CBS TV broadcast, 25 Oct.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig on Sunday.

-Truman, Harry S
  Of presidential hopeful Eisenhower. Quoted in Richard M Nixon RN: Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978).

If you†believe in the philosophy of the pig troughöthat those with the biggest snouts should get the largest shareöI reject it.

-Weighell, Sidney
  Labour Party Conference,10 Apr.