Pearls And Swine Quotes & Sayings

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine. — Dorothy Parker

Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. — Anonymous

Ohhhhkay... say again but slooooowly. — Stephan Pastis

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before. — Charles Dickens

When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But I keep working with my contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it. — Josef Koudelka

A good thing that is squandered upon bad folk is never remembered by them for good. — Sebastian Evans

Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, driven out of their minds by the horrors of the journey, abandoned their children, shook the corn out of their sacks onto the ground, and turned back. A quick death, they had decided, was preferable to a slow death by starvation. Better to fall into the clutches of the enemy than to be torn to pieces by some beast in the forest. — Boris Pasternak

The charcoals of burned out religious philosophies are perceived by devout fanatics as pearls, which the heathen swine cannot appreciate. — Dimitris Mita

But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can't toss your pearls before the swine. I think that's why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you're kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Give all your pearls, and the swine will make a pearl necklace, then run off. Don't show all your glory. — Anthony Liccione

Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen. — Stephan Pastis

Eternal condemnation is the key to selling doorknobs. — Stephan Pastis

The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning. — George Orwell

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. — Helen Rowland

I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy. — Swami Vivekananda

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made
unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses. — Edward Abbey

Stupid people and their stupid people ways! — Stephan Pastis

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls. — Gertrude Stein

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine. — Dorothy Parker

Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine? — Orson Scott Card

Me no read. Look how smart me is. — Stephan Pastis

Never cast pearls before swine. — Robert A. Heinlein

My identity is without root. — C.S. Friedman

Should a reasonable person not demand that philosophy should not be foolishly purveyed before people incompetent to see the point of it, as pearls before swine? For Nietzsche is utterly correct: philosophy is only for the healthy and whole-minded, the sick it has always only made even sicker. By means of philosophy they dig themselves even deeper into their pathetic delusions. — Kenny Smith

Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot, and turn to attack you (Matthew 7:6). — Stephen Lampe

It was was very important not to cast any pearls before swine
especially when one of the swine was trying to keep kosher. — Jaffe Cohen

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls. — Margaret Deland