Quotes about sheep
sheep sailing jeeves
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action. P. G. Wodehouse
sheep ideas democracy
So when the wolf pounces on your lamb, just ignore the pitiful bleating and remind yourself that this is a democracy, where every sheep can freely express its preference for which kind of wolf it wants to be eaten by. Many sheep, perhaps understandably, prefer a wolf in sheep's clothing, which is after all the basic idea of democracy. So far it has worked pretty well. The wolves all agree on that, and they want to spread democracy everywhere. Joseph Sobran
sheep goats
Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep. Madonna Ciccone
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 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 conflict far-away
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away. Plautus
sheep care
The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be. Plato
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 gone
A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one. Mason Cooley
sheep sushi sticks
And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi. Michael Grant
sheep people gold
That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do. Michael Lewis
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 literature culture
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. Henry David Thoreau
sheep people humanity
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity. Eric Hoffer
sheep individuality world
To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own. Rajneesh
sheep psychology individuality
Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar.
sheep people court
Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep. Thomas Jefferson
sheep government care
The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
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 heaven sage
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference. Willard Van Orman Quine
sheep theory clothings
Set theory in sheep's clothing.
sheep miracle catholic
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate. Saint Augustine
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 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