Shear The Sheep Quotes & Sayings

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. — Tiberius

You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once. — Amarillo Slim

You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once. — Mike McDermott

Spend any time in the real Italy, however, and you quickly realize that Italians don't really pick grapes much anymore, and they certainly don't stomp them either. They don't pick tomatoes - or olives - and they don't shear their sheep. Their tomatoes and olives are picked largely by underpaid Africans and Eastern Europeans, seasonal hires, brought in for that purpose - who are then demonized and complained about for the rest of the year. (Except when blowing motorists in the offseason - as can be readily observed on the outskirts of even the smallest Italian communities these days.) — Anthony Bourdain

The whole day of Bel Tine would be taken up with singing and dancing and feasting, with time out for footraces, and contests in almost everything. Prizes would be given not only in archery, but for the best with the sling, and the quarterstaff. There would be contests at solving riddles and puzzles, at the rope tug, and lifting and tossing weights, prizes for the best singer, the best dancer and the best fiddle player, for the quickest to shear a sheep, even the best at bowls, and at darts. — Robert Jordan

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time. — Robert Plant

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. — Robert Herrick