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| A barren sow is never kind to pigs. | 1 |
| A bespattered hog tries to bespatter another. Spanish. | 2 |
| A measly hog infects the whole sty. Spanish. | 3 |
| A hog in armor is still but a hog. | 4 |
| A hog that’s bemired endeavors to bemire others. | 5 |
| A pig’s life—short and sweet. French. | 6 |
| A pig’s tail will never make a good arrow. Spanish. | 7 |
| A pretty pig makes an ugly hog. | 8 |
| A sow is always dreaming of bran. French. | 9 |
| A sow may find an acorn as well as a hog. Danish. | 10 |
| A sow prefers bran to roses. French. | 11 |
| A still sow eats up all the draff. Dutch. | 12 |
| A swine fatted hath eat its own bane. | 13 |
| As the sow tills the draff sours. | 14 |
| Everyone basteth the fat hog while the lean one burneth. | 15 |
| Every sow deserves not a sack posset. | 16 |
| Every sow to her trough. | 17 |
| Feed a pig and you will have a hog. | 18 |
| He has the right sow by the ear. German. | 19 |
He that can rear up a pig in his house,
Hath cheaper his bacon and sweeter his souse. Tusser. | 20 |
| He that has but one hog makes him fat, he that has but one son makes him a fool. | 21 |
| He that has but one pig easily fattens it. Italian. | 22 |
| He that seeks to grunt at me, has the wrong sow by the ear. Sancho Panza. | 23 |
| He who does not kill hogs will not get black puddings. Spanish. | 24 |
| He’s like a swine, he’ll never do good while he lives. | 25 |
| If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak. Dutch. | 26 |
| Ill would the fat sow fare on the primroses of the wood. | 27 |
| It is ill to drive black hogs in the dark. | 28 |
| It is not every man that takes the right sow by the ear. Danish. | 29 |
| “It will all come back” said the man who gave his sow pork. Danish. | 30 |
| Lean meat from a fat pig. Portuguese. | 31 |
| Like Goodyear’s pig: never well but when doing mischief. | 32 |
| Old pigs have hard snouts. German, Danish. | 33 |
| Pigs in the cold and men in drink make a great noise. Portuguese. | 34 |
| Pigs love that lie together. | 35 |
| The fat sow knows not what the hungry sow suffers. Dutch. | 36 |
| The hog never looks up to him who threshes down the acorns. | 37 |
| The lazy pig does not eat ripe pears. Italian. | 38 |
| The oldest pig must look for the knife. Benjamin Disraeli. | 39 |
| The pig having done wallowing in the mire is seeking some clean person to rub against. Yorubas. (Africa.) | 40 |
| The pig prefers mud to clean water. Latin. | 41 |
| The sow prefers the mire. Danish. | 42 |
| The still swine eat the mash, the wild ones run past it. Danish. | 43 |
| The whole hog or none. | 44 |
| The worst pig eats the best acorn (or pear). Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. | 45 |
| The worst pig gets the best corn. | 46 |
| The young pig must often suffer for what the old sow did. Danish. | 47 |
| To bring one’s hogs to a fair market. | 48 |
| What can you expect of a hog but his bristles. | 49 |
| When every one sees you are a pig why don’t you go into a sty? Dutch. | 50 |
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| When the pig is proffered hold up the poke. | 51 |
| When the sow is satisfied she overturns the trough. German. | 52 |
| You can’t expect anything from a pig but a grunt. Grimm’s Fairy Tales. | 53 |
| Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them. Danish. | 54 |
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