Pig Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pig quotes, pig sayings, and pig proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Your piglet is my sow. Jamaican Saying
Never grease a fat pig. Jamaican Saying
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. George Orwell
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 fellows get 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. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
What the horse is to the Arab, or the dog is to the Greenlander, the pig is to the Irishman. Johann Georg Kohl
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. John Stuart Mill
Let not a pig presume to teach Minerva. Greek Proverb
People are told not to buy pig in a poke — that may or may not be true. I don't think people should buy pigs at all. Oscar Wilde
A calf that goes with a pig will eat excrement. Tamil proverb
A pig is more impudent than a goat, but a woman surpasses all. Irish Proverb
In the time of need the pig is called uncle. Albanian Proverb
To the pig a carrot is a present. German Proverb
A pig on credit makes a good winter and a bad spring. Portuguese Proverb
I'm proud to be called a pig. Its stands for pride, integrity, and guts. Ronald Wilson Reagan
The pig wallows in mud but thinks it is being a dandy. Yoruba Proverb
A pig does not know what is becoming. Yoruba Proverb
Groaning internally is how an antelope groans; rumbling internally is how a leopard rumbles; the grunts of a pig stay inside the pig. Yoruba Proverb
I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles. The pig's lot and mine were inextricably bound now, as though the rubber tube were the silver cord. E.B. White
I spend several days and nights in mid-September with an ailing pig and I feel driven to account for this stretch of time, more particularly since the pig died at last, and I lived, and things might easily have gone the other way round and none left to do the accounting. E.B. White