Quotes 21 till 40 of 40.
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People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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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.
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Source: From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783 -
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
― Austin O'Malley
American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932) -
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
Source: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864 -
They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep].
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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
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