A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Command Dainty Flock Sheep Thing Though Tis

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

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

Miguel de Cervantes

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Albert Einstein

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Max Beerbohm

My dad had a flock of sheep, which he used to milk, and then my mum used to make cheese and yogurt out of the sheep's milk and sell it. It was kind of an unusual upbringing, really.

Joanne Froggatt

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.

Joanna Southcott

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

Will Rogers

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

Winston Churchill

Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.

Joan Robinson

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

William A. Drake

Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.

Gerry Spence

The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.

Sabine Baring-Gould

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

Richard Whately

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

Barbara Hepworth

Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him.

Teresa Medeiros

This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques or novelties, instead of being shepherds living with 'the odor of the sheep.' This I ask you: Be shepherds, with the 'odor of the sheep,' make it real, as shepherds among your flock, fishers of men.