Quotes
Quotes about Sheep
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.
Sheep follow sheep.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold; And maybe they hear, and wonder why, And marvel, out in the cold.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell from Cyrano.
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one. "With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in, 'Twill be warm and convanient," said Bryan O'Lynn.
God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]
To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.]
A black sheep is a biting beast.
It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
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.
A leap year Is never a good sheep year.
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. - Thomas Love Peacock,
When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep are gane.
It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
