Sheep Quotes

• Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Command
  • Sheep
  • Dainty

• If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Suffering
  • Christ
  • Two

• Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Lion
  • Iron
  • Sheep

• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wine
  • Degrees
  • Sheep

• Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Father
  • Hurt
  • Sheep

• Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Tree

• A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Time
  • Chickens
  • Pigs

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