#swine

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#divine #pearl #precious #rich #swine

I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improvement of my mind but I find that much of it has been spent extremely foolish and that walking in the pasture at dusk with virtuous, amiable and genteel young ladies I experience none but swineish passions. I commenced to read Russell’s Modern Europe sometime last summer. ↗

— John Cheever

#experience

With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#certainly #deaths #flu #higher #important

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are. ↗

— Edward Albee

#show #swine #truffles #where #you

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#africa #arms #bird #cover #everybody

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #bump #i #least #off

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#dead #kills #live #men #much

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#men #pearls #swine