Quotes by category:Sheep

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and... by Mark Twain

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

waiting sheep inspirational

It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.

powerful flesh sheep

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

wool would-be sheep

Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan).

virginia voice sheep

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

legs sheep men

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the shee... by Mark Twain

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

sheep men ideas

A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one. by Mason Cooley

A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.

gone sheep

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.

sheep love two

Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in your circle remind you of stable animals: grazing like sheep, stubborn like donkeys, and that cow in the corner looks a lot like the fellow next door. You, like Joseph, knocked on the innkeeper's door. But you were too late. Or too old, sick, dull, damaged, poor, or peculiar. You know the sound of a slamming door.

sheep doors animal

Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed. by Melina Marchetta

Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

Melina Marchetta

cousin bed sheep

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.

sushi sticks sheep

A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

sheep years thinking

That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.

gold sheep people

Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

paws want sheep

If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

aquariums sheep mean

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

sheep beauty men

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't... by Michelle Pfeiffer

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

Michelle Pfeiffer

black sheep kids

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

majority democracy sheep

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

keys kings sheep

Only a sheep with lion's heart can attack wolf, not the sheep wit... by Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only a sheep with lion's heart can attack wolf, not the sheep with lion's teeth or with lion's claw!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

teeth sheep heart