Quotes with sheep-herding

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  • George Washington If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Stendhal The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • B. B. King Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Alexander the Great I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Austin O'Malley In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Albert Einstein In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • William Shakespeare Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Dean William R. Inge It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Dean Inge It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
    Patriotism (1919)
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  • Janet Frame It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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  • Sister Elizabeth Kenny It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.
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  • Allen Klein Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Richard Whately Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Alexander Herzen Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Barry Humphries New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Brian P. Cleary Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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