Graham Chapman Quotes

Pasture comes before prayer.

Cattle, horses, mules, asses... may be pastured on this land or place which is public property of the Roman people, … nor need anyone be charged tax or rental for this privilege.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.

The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

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

Sheep are just psychotic.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

... a Missouri jackass.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

I have a pet goat.

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.