"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."

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Source : Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 9

Max Beerbohm

#Men Quotes #Sheep Quotes #Legs Quotes

“The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products.”
“The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.”

Source : Tim Farron's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.newstatesman.com. October 7, 2014.
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
“Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.251, Penguin
“Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.”
“I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.”
“Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.”
“The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.”

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