“Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Iced
“Homer often calls kings “shepherds of the people,” but nature more accurately applies the title to the good, since kings are more often in the position of the sheep than of the shepherd. They are led by strong drink and good looks and by baked meats and savory dishes and the dainties produced by cooks and confectioners, to say nothing of their craving for silver and gold and grander ambitions.”
— Philo
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Every Good Man is Free
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Roman philosopher -15–45 BCRelated quotes
“Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter”
Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592) English author
"The Shepherd's Wife's Song", line 1, from Mourning Garment (1590); Dyce p. 305.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
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“All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
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“Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.”
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge
United States v. Wunderlich, 342 U.S. 98, 103 (1951)
Judicial opinions
John Cunningham Geikie (1824–1906) Scottish Presbyterian minister and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 59.
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
From a speech given at the Royal Academy of Art in 1953; quoted in Time magazine (11 May 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“You will divide the sheep from the goats and you will encourage the one and shepherd the other.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor
The Visitor (2002)
Context: You will divide the sheep from the goats and you will encourage the one and shepherd the other. You always had a leaning that way. Each of you will find the fight that suites yourself and your being. You will triumph, suffer, weep, rejoice, possibly die... If you die another will rise up in your name, if you don't die, you'll live an extremely long life. You are my angels, for whom an almost heaven waits... Your work will be long, however, long and hard before you can rest in it.