Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 17, 2022

We have to make the effort to be loved.

With the important title and the high salary, he can be loved as much as he wants, as long as the wife doesn’t find out.

Sometimes Pig can be wise.

Pig may end up on top of the hill if he keeps dropping those wisdombombs!

What is the secret to becoming loved?

All we need is love.

Love thyself. The rest will follow.

“What have I done.”

You’re right. You’re right. You’re right. You’re-

That’ll do, Pig. That’ll do.

“’Tis so,” said the Duchess: “and the moral of that is—‘Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!’”

“Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding their own business!”

“Ah, well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess.

Wise Pig on the flatlands.

If someone ever tells me a secret I’ll repeat it on GoComics.

I thought Pig once said that the best way to be happy is to stay in bed.

Naah. The secret of happy life is delicious foods.

Until you gets diabetes that is.

Good morning Steph, I believe you finally woke up, your right on with this one, we all love it, Thank you and have a great day.

Lots of very unhappy rich people, good one Pig!

“Tis easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter Heaven”

If you want to be loved be lovable.

Thank you, Pig, for a ration of sanity in an increasingly insane world!

Some people spend their lives acquiring stuff in an attempt to fill the gaping hole inside of them, and it doesn’t work.

Pig is correct

Happiness rarely comes from stuff, but often comes from shared experiences.

Sometimes, all we need to feel happy is to pursue our passions. Either that, or find a beautiful woman.

The best vitamin for developing strong friends is B1.

Money and stuff don’t buy anyone happiness….take a look at all the millionaires and billionaires in this world…they have tumultuous lives to say the least! They seem to think they’re above the laws……

Great song by DC Talk.

Yet the world is more depressed than ever. Spread the word, Pig! We need it.

I’d love to have a new car, big salary, nice house, . . . .

Thank you, Pig. (I like these strips the best).

Love is a gift and cannot be earned. Thanks Steph for the reminder.

You’ve gotta be able to love yourself first, then you can be loved.

Surprisingly pithy, but sometimes Pastis makes insightful strips.

This makes me want to pray for poor lost Jacob Marley.

And to buy crap we don’t need…

Then again, maybe we don’t…..

This can be an uplifting comic strip when Rat’s not around….

I hate being loved, it costs so darn much these days.

Want to be loved? Be nice. (No guarantees, but it helps.)

Remember what the Wizard of Oz said, “A heart is not judged by how much YOU love, but by how much you are loved by others.”

The first step, of course, it to just not be an jerk. Which already seems too steep for some people.

To be more specific we want to love and be loved. Sometimes its better to give than receive.

Thank you, Pig! That was nice. And (at least for today) you are much wiser than the Wise A$$ on the Hill….

[sings] … some one to watch over me…

Well, ‘envied’ is the next best thing.