Pastoral Resources

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.

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

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.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

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

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

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

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

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.

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.