Quotes about sheep
sheep care
The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be. Plato
sheep people mourning
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep. John Updike
sheep advice foolish
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor. John Ray
sheep people bites
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep. James Joyce
sheep rights government
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. Larry Flynt
sheep years cake
Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad. Nikolai Gogol
sheep skins
You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.
sheep attorney assembling
Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed. Johnny Kelly
sheep people religion
some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.
sheep water camels
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. Marianne Moore
sheep looks hungry
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. John Milton
sheep hook mouths
Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.
sheep giving hatred
Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations. Joan Robinson
sheep escaping long
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight. John Constable
sheep lost-ones grace
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones. Madeleine L'Engle
sheep black ends
After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end. Lou Gramm
sheep thrones lions
A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of a sheep Lionel Messi
sheep would-be gentle
If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless. John Lancaster Spalding
sheep tables
Dont put the sheep on the table. Gene Wilder
sheep goal black
To rally every black sheep is my goal. Julian Cope
sheep ninety-nine long
Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered. Pope Francis
sheep gazing gone
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown. Thomas Hood
sheep rights people
The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep. Thomas Sowell
sheep cows corn
The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit. Robert Grosseteste
sheep thieves world
Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner. Samuel Johnson
sheep shepherds strikes
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter Robert Greene
sheep people antlers
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on. Tori Amos
sheep lord disciple
Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold. Vance Havner
sheep lambs littles
Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? William Blake
sheep mountain valleys
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. Thomas Love Peacock
sheep giving meditation
The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field. Shunryu Suzuki
sheep giving cows
To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.
sheep giving people
Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.