Herds Quotes - Page 14

• When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears,
  A sable void the barren earth appears;
  The meads no more their former verdure boast,
  Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost;
  The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return;
  From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow,
  Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below,
  Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
  Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Winter, Blow

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.8

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• Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,
  Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
  There as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
  The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
  The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
  The sober herd that low'd to meet their young;
  The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
  The playful children just let loose from school;
  The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
  And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;
  These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
  And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Sweet, Children

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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• The venal herd.
  [Lat., Venale pecus.]

  Juvenal

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• Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sheep, Liberty, Fields

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jupiter, Act 3, 1943.

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• I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

  Isak Dinesen

  Elephants, End Of The World, Forests

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• The god we now behold with opened eyes,
  A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
  In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
  On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

  Ovid

  Lying, Eye, Panthers

  Ovid, “Metamorphoses: Book The Third”

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• They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

  David Gemmell

  Horse, Real, Gold

  David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press

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• i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

  Don Marquis

  Sleep, Moon, Oysters

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.272, Penguin

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• Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Slavery, May, Individual

  Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.1989, Delphi Classics

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• Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months.

  George Plimpton

  Golf, Emotional, Two

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• Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk, confuse a herd of cows with an enemy regiment, and slaughter the lot, screaming like lunatics until the entire army panics.

  Ilona Andrews

  Stars, Children, Army

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• I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.

  Isak Dinesen

  Morning, Eye, Dark

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

  Ray Comfort

  Elephants, Enemy, Fleas

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• I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Former

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• What is this world?--A term which men have got,
  To signify not one in ten knows what;
  A term, which with no more precision passes
  To point out herds of men than herds of asses;
  In common use no more it means, we find,
  Than many fools in same opinions joined.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Men, Use

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.61

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