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

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

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

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Good actions ennoble us and we are the sons of our deeds.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

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.

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him.

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

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

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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.

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

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

After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

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

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.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

I love the lambs, not the sheep.

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.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.