“ But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 263
“ Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous — who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 3.4K
“ For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.6K
“ There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive. ”
- Kevin Kelly- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. ”
- Flavius Renatus Vegetius- Copy
- 3K
“ Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms… To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks … all lovely and loose and jingly. ”
- Bernice Fitz Gibbon- Copy
- 1.4K
“ A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ”
- Barbara Holland- Copy
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“ Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people. ”
- Jean Guehenno- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.3K
“ All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it. ”
- Jonathan Miller- Copy
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“ Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. ”
- Aaron Hill- Copy
- 276
“ Feed the flock of God; care for it willingly, not grudgingly; not for what you will get out of it, but because you are eager to serve the Lord. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together. ”
- John Gay- Copy
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“ Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. ”
- Richard Whately- Copy
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“ Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 2K
“ 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Today the tyrant rules, not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher; he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman. ”
- Theda Bara- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Like an immense flock of chattering birds observing precise migratory habits, every Wednesday, just a few minutes before noon, they swoop down upon the midtown area. ”
- Deirdre Carmody- Copy
- 1.5K
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