Porkopolis

The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,
That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines,
Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough
In your embowell'd bosoms, this foul swine
Lies now even in the centre of this isle,
Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn
From Tamworth thither is but one day's march.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English dramatist and poet. The Tragedy of King Richard III, Act 5, Scene 2 (1593-3).

The wind snorted across the Kansas plains.

Gail Sheehy (b. 1937)
U.S. author, journalist and critic.

His face was the color of a freshly baked pork pie and as noncommittal.

Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)
U.S. writer.

Pigs must have hot blood, they feel like ovens.

Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
British poet, Poet Laureate of England (1984). View of a Pig (1960).

Is there a man among us who on running through a list of his friends, is unable to say that there is one among them who is a perfect pig?

W.H. Hudson (1841-1922)
British naturalist and author.

A beer so clouded, that it looked
    as if it were a lake and pigs had wrestled in it.

Anonymous
A popular 16th century English commentary on hopped beer.

Sometimes I'm not able to find the trajectory of an idea and carry it through to the end. [My director] is a truffle pig to an idea. He just ruts it out.

Jon Robin Baitz (b, 1961)
U.S. playwright. The Playwriting Seminars by Richard Toscan.

The history of Sicily was larded with treachery.

Mario Puzo, (1920-1999)
U.S. novelist.

Now, it is senseless getting the thing [modern architecture] in a heap, pig-piling, to pig-pile some more. Believe me, it is old-fashioned. It is not in the keeping of our modern opportunities. It is not in the keeping of our modern thought. It is dead. And I believe that unless real estate men... get this message: decentralization — reintegration — organic architecture — the use of our other resources... we have not got a civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)
U.S. architect with a distinctive style, based on natural forms. "Lower Construction Costs for Homes", a speech before the 25th Annual Convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards held at the Netherland Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 30, 1932.

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.

Horace (65-8 BC)
Roman lyric poet and master of poetic form. Epistoles (22-8 BC).

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Theoretical physicist, widely considered to have been one of the greatest physicists of all time. Quoted in C.P. Snow's Variety of Men (1969).

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

James Joyce (1882-1941)
Irish novelist and poet. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).