The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

A comet is sublimated fire assimilated to the nature of one of the seven planets.

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.