Sheep Quotes - Page 4

• I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

  Tommy Emmanuel

  Men, Nervous

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• First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.

  Og Mandino

  Destiny, Thinking, Humanity

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• The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock. The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuces, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.

  E. Nesbit

  Dragons, People, Bed

  E. Nesbit (2016). “THE BOOK OF DRAGONS: 8 Dragon Tales from Edith Nesbit author The Railway Children”, p.54, Abela Publishing Ltd

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• In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

  Robert Herrick

  Kings, Skins, Moderation

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

  Loretta Young

  Eye, Makeup, Want

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• Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Court

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.561

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• A heaven so clear, an earth so calm,
  So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air;
  And, deepening still the dreamlike charm,
  Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Air, Heaven

  "A Little While, a Little While". Poem by Emily Bronte, etc.usf.edu. 1846.

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• It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

  William Ralph Inge

  Vegetarianism, Different, Useless

  Outspoken Essays: First Series "Patriotism" (1919)

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• She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

  Alice Meynell

  Sleep, White, Delight

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Two, Waiting

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Best Friend, Men

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• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  Barry Humphries

  Country, Thinking, Three

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource and will create rent-seeking. People will trying to get that resource one way or the other, including immigration. It is very much like the medieval peasants putting their sheep on the commons pasture. It is better than the open range, and if you let them have open access they will, in fact, put too many sheep on the pasture and waste the value that the pasture has.

  James M. Buchanan

  Past, People, Trying

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

  Abba Kovner

  Freedom, Taken, Patriotic

  "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

  Dustin Diamond

  Leadership, Shepherds, Followers

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• Ask questions then talk over answers, shout loudly you love everyone, try and hug people, confide in them that you are a sheep, offer them the last grass in your pockets.
  Then watch with a smile as they pretend you aren't there, and whisper you must be crazy, because you want to make friends.

  Craig Stone

  Crazy, People, Hug

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• It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

  Tiberius

  Skins, Shepherds, Taxation

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• The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

  A. P. Herbert

  Funny, Life, Anniversary

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• People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

  James Joyce

  People, Bites

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.720, Delphi Classics

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• I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

  Bear Grylls

  Zebras, Eye, Giving

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• But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.

  Damien Hirst

  Fall, Glasses, Views

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• The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

  Austin O'Malley

  Funny, Political, Skins

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• It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.

  Emile Faguet

  Freedom, Would Be, Born

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• 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

  Escaping, Water, Long

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• I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!

  Patrick Stewart

  Elephants, Yorkshire, Cows

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