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“Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.”

William Osler quotes (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)

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“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”

Pierre Elliott Trudeau quotes (Canadian Prime Minister, 1919-2000)

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“(William Inge) handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a terrible clang”

Benedict Nightingale quotes

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“The safe that night looked like a soft one [and] the explosion made no more noise than a pig's grunt.”

Herbert Emerson Wilson quotes

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“Has an IQ of 2, but it takes 3 to grunt”

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“SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.”

Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)
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“A civil denial is better than a rude grunt”

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“Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the vanity of Pundits are so thick, that it is impossible for them to get rid of these.”

Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)

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“Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them”

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“Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child”

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“A pig bought on credit is forever grunting”

Spanish Proverb quotes

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“They were called grunts, and many of them, however grudgingly, were proud of the name. They were the infantrymen, the foot soldiers of the war.”

Bernard Edelman quotes

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“You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.”

Ian Fleming quotes (Scottish Writer, 1908-1964)

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“It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.”

Alfred Jarry quotes (French writer, 1873-1907)

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“When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.”

Robin Williams quotes (American actor)

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“I have a lot of respect for her. She was my favorite player growing up. That's why I started grunting; I wanted to be like Monica.”

Venus Williams quotes (American professional women's Tennis Player. Sister of Serena Williams. b.1980)

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“One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.”

Yiddish Proverb quotes

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