(Humor)
DISCUSSING THE EXASPERATION OF TRYING TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING OF CONSEQUENCE TO COMMON FOLK
1. “Do not … cast your pearls before swine” – Matthew 7:6
2. “Never try to each a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig.” – Heinlein
3. “Donβt wrestle with pigs; you both get dirty, and the pig likes it.” – folk origins,
4. “If Pigs could fly….” – John Withals in his 1616 English-Latin dictionary.
5. “Pigs might fly but they make a terrible landing” – Modern addition
6. “That’s making a silk purse from a sow’s ear.” – English philosopher Stephen Gosson in 1579
7 “You can put lipstick on a pig, but itβs still a pig.” – origins in common American vernacular.