Quotes About Shearing Sheep

#1. In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Austin O'Malley

#2. Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Mason Cooley

#3. There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

Bernie Mac

#4. Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

John Battelle

#5. Hey," he said.
"Hi." Oh, damn. It was awkward.
"What're you doing?"
"Shearing a sheep. It's cold outside, and I need a new hat."
He paused. "You're joking, right?"
"Yes, Marshall." I gnawed on my fingers some more and sunk back in my chair.

Chanelle Gray

#6. She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Henny Youngman

#7. He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.

Richard Baxter

#8. Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

Michael Chabon

#9. Earl had let Bertie off the porch for some fresh grass and I didn't want Dr. Eustace to see her. She still looked as though we'd put Hannibal Lecter in charge of her shearing and had hired the special effects team from Night of the Living Dead to bandage her.

Susan Juby

#10. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

Beryl Markham

#11. And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#12. My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

Jason Clarke

#13. One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

Nicholas Sparks