“ Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. ”
- Charles Mackay- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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
- 1K
“ 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
- 1.9K
“ All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
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“ Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008. ”
- Lindsey Graham- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I accidentally installed the deer whistles on my car backwards. now everywhere i go, i'm chased by a herd of deer. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. ”
- Richard Whately- Copy
- 1.4K
“ At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. ”
- The Washington Post Magazine- Copy
- 73
“ Bisonburger from the herd that appeared in 'Dances With Wolves.'. ”
- Oasis in Oacama- Copy
- 3.1K
“ For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 2.6K
“ But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone. ”
- Raymond B. Fosdick- Copy
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“ We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. ”
- George S. Patton- Copy
- 291
“ 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
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“ It is the American vice, the democratic disease, which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. ”
- Archibald MacLeish- Copy
- 2K
“ The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
- 878
“ Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No — no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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