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Animals-Swine: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

"Once on a time there was a mouse," quoth she, "Who sick of worldly tears and laughter, grew Enamoured of a sainted priyacy; To all terrestrial things he bade adieu, And entered, far from mouse, or cat, or man, A thick-walled cheese, the best of Parmesan."— LORENZO PIGNOTTI — The Mouse Turned

Hermit. The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole, Can never be a mouse of any soul.— POPE — The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. L. 298.

The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 6. L. 44.

Ox. And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he whose toil. Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest.— THOMSON — The Seasons.

Serpent. Spit on a serpent, and his vigor flies. He straight devours himself, and quickly dies.— LUCRETIUS — Bk. 4. V. 642, 643.

See VOLTAIRE-A Philosophical Dictionary. Serpents. Sheep. A leap year Is never a good sheep year. Old English Saying. The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.— THOS. L. PEACOCK — The Misfortunes of

Elphin. The War-Song of Dinas Vawr. Stag. The swift stag from underground Bore up his branching head. S.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VII. L. 469.

Swine. The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.— WILLIAM MASON — Heroic Epistle.

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 221.

The hog that ploughs not, nor obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 41.