“P IG , n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, ...Epicuri de grege porcum.”
— You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide,—...a hog from Epicurus' herd.
“In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King”
— Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell III.
“… of all animals their flesh most resembles human flesh, which is somewhat disconcerting when you consider that more than 40 percent of all meat raised in the world is pork.”
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004), ch. 1, p. 21
“How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.”
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 221
“A pig which was about to be slaughtered by the pig-butcher squealed. (The butcher said:) "Your ancestors and forebears walked this road, and now you too are walking it, so why are you squealing?”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection VIII at , .

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