A Quote by Amarillo Slim
You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.
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You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
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.
I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!
I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
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The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.
Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.
It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.
I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
In visual art it's better once to see, than one hundred times to hear.
We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.
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