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Laymen say, indeed, How they take no heed Their sely sheep to feed, But pluck away and pull The fleeces of their wool. - John Skelton, Colin Clout All nations that grew great out of little or nothing did so merely by the public-mindedness of particular persons. - Bishop Robert South A flock of hirelings (venal pack). [Lat., Grex venalium.] - Caius Tranquillus Suetonius, De Clar. Rhet. (I) A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk. [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (bk. VI, 22) The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (bk. VI, 22) It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England. - William Makepeace Thackeray, Four Georges--George the Third The public be damned. - William Henry Vanderbilt, reply when asked whether public should be consulted about luxury trains, as reported by Clarence Dresser in the Chicago "Tribune", 1883 The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly. [Lat., Saevitque animis ignoble vulgus, Jamque faces et saxa volant.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (I, 149) The uncertain multitude is divided by opposite opinions. - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (II, 39) One cry was common to them all. [Lat., Vox omnibus una.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (V, 616) Prejudice, friend, govern the vulgar crowd. [Fr., Les prejuges, ami, sont les rois du vulgaire.] - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), Le Fanatisme (II, 4) Our supreme governors, the mob. - Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, Letter to Horace Mann That is, in a great degree, true of all men, which was said of the Athenians, that they were like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. - Archbishop Richard Whately [The] public path of life Is dirty. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (VIII, 373) Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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