Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them
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The idea was to get the sheep to eat what we wanted them to eat.
EDWIN SMITH That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.
DENIS HEALEY
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the livin...
ANTISTHENES
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.
ANTISTHENES
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living
ANTISTHENES
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?
a sheep eats whatever it finds
even a flow...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.
GEORGE HERBERT
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people ...
MARGO KAUFMAN Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
BIBLE
Then we'd get behind them and drive them up a valley. Then we'd stab a pig, it would cry, and then w...
NELSON MANDELA But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming...
BIBLE They?re better grazers then sheep.
AMY SMITH
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...
BARUCH SPINOZA
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...
BARUCH SPINOZA To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and l...
BIBLE
The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Eve...
SABINE BARING-GOULD Stone the crows!
JIM BROADBENT Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
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Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres o...
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Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more,...
SWEDISH PROVERB
I say, I've fed his sheep. Now I'll tend to them, ... tend to my sheep.
JESUS CHRIST Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the loc...
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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.
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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead.
WOODY ALLEN
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
WOODY ALLEN The trucks back then didn't have sleepers on them and they would stop here, eat dinner, sleep in one...
COLLEEN STOGSDILL The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY [The employees who toured with the Dead will feel the pinch, as well.] There's crew and there's secu...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD Every silver linings got a touch of grey
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will sur...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV They only eat dead flesh. They like jerky basically.
LINK OLSON
Chickens: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
UNKNOWN If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of
pain, two black crows flew out of h...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
Even the blackest of them all, the crow,
Renders good service as your man-at-arms,
Crushing th...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
When neither is attended; and I think
The nightingal...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
And with thy bloody and invisible...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Drive down any road,
take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your o...
MARY OLIVER
A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them.
UNKNOWN
To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog
GERMAN PROVERB Expect guests when the crow crows.
APORVA KALA
He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
RICK RIORDAN
Sheep all together, cars all together, people all together, crows all together, ants all together! E...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Nobody's ever dead unless you see them die in a hospital, they're pronounced dead, and then maybe th...
JENNIFER LENHART
A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten thousands are devoured by men
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Leopards do that sometimes. They eat away the dead tissue if wounded seriously.
BOOL SMUTS If you are hungry you will eat them, if you don't want them then you are probably not hungry.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS We took $10,000 on the Crows at $4.50, another $5000 at $4.30, and a steady stream of money since ha...
GERARD DAFFY
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Then kids wouldn't eat them anymore. We can't let the cat out of the bag (that they're healthy).
ANGELA HANSEN
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been alwa...
GEORGE CATLIN
The crows, the idle person grumbles. - Yoruba, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERB Once Arden said, "Why is it that one sheep is called a sheep and multiple sheep are also called shee...
RILEY CARNEY
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves
PROVERB A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed ...
J. H. KELLOGG
Time often removes the laurel wreaths and places them on the heads of the real winners. But then usu...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.
BIBLE
We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
MARK TWAIN
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove
MARK TWAIN Crows are what are known as colonial roosters -- they roost in a colony at night. That area in the e...
BRIAN SHEMA Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep fo...
BIBLE
Honestly, all crows are not ravens
MUNIA KHAN
I felt sorry for the inhabitants and went into the forest to admonish the wolf in God's name not to ...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then ...
DAVID LETTERMAN Don’t stab the pig and then eat its bacon
CHARMAINE J FORDE
Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the pe...
LEIGH BARDUGO
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth...
AESCHYLUS
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, / The hart, and the roebuc...
BIBLE
Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.
DAVID SEDARIS Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall e...
BIBLE
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And ther...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
BIBLE
Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
DAN CASTELLANETA
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.
TARA BRAY SMITH The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the ...
MOVIE
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaught...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In your life you will love someone so much you could eat them, then you will get married and wish yo...
UNKNOWN Leigh stands there, not so much a figure to scare crows as to beckon doves.
PAUL RUSSELL The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.
JACK HANDY
when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and y...
LOUIS C. K.
Vikings? There ain’t no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. The town was burning, the villagers ...
MONTY PYTHON
Sheep follow sheep.
THE TALMUD
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU
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