A Quote by Lloyd Alexander

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper! — © Lloyd Alexander
No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!
And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.
Guys can look like pigs. The girl always has to be a looker. Look at most TV shows: According To Jim - pig and a looker. Still Standing - pig and a looker. Ralph Kramden [on The Honeymooners] - pig and a looker. Family Guy - pig and a looker. It's a theme.
In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?
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.
The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.
Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.
Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.
I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene.
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