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(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. “Don’t 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 it’s still a pig.” – origins in common American vernacular.