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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Who makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolves.

German Proverb

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Vernon Howard

Because of the increase in the number of farms where foot-and-mouth disease has been detected in Britain, and because of the presence in France of sheep from one of those farms.

Jean Glavany

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Alexander Chase

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Richard Whately

Not every lion is killing sheep. We're trying to focus on known kills and trying to remove that lion that is killing sheep.

Jim Devos

Even sheep should have brains enough not to follow the wolf.

Joseph Goodfield

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Harry F. Banks

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Cicero

Money and Corruption Are ruining the land Crooked politicians Betray the working man, Pocketing the profits And treating us like sheep, And we're tired of hearing promises That we know they'll never keep.

Ray Davies

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Oliver Cromwell

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Daniel Defoe

We have no more space for horses in the stalls. We have no more space for cattle. We've had to cap or limit our hog and sheep entries.

Pat Grant

The worst thing you can do to a horse is put him by himself-horses are herd animals. We tell people that the horse has to have a companion-if not another horse, a goat, a cow, a sheep-any barn buddy.

John Roberson

You can buy everything from hats and gloves made out of camel wool, sheep felted mats, new products such as tea cozies to felt juggling balls... so it brings a lot of money into the local communities and gives people money to send their kids to school.

Tom Mccarthy

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenal

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

Yves Montand

We also purchased a sheep for the Heifer International project. Although it seems odd, it will allow someone in another country to having clothing and food.

Arlene Tolette

I'm not going to live with no elk, no deer, no bighorn sheep and no goats, just because some environmentalist someplace wants to hear a wolf howl.

Ron Gillett

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Kahlil Gibran

I don't think sheep are going to be gone in five years, but we're trying not to drop the ball on them. This is not an animal we want to lose.

Judy Visty

The kids have to hold on to the wool and tighten their knees around the sheep and ride it as long as they can. They are only judged on six seconds of riding, but they can go to the end of the arena if they want.

Tracy Adams

Baa Baa Black Sheep.

Robert Conrad

They?re better grazers then sheep.

Amy Smith

It's quite a long list of people. If I hadn't gone here, I would have been the black sheep. But I always wanted to go here.

Andrew Miller

Once you see it and experience it, ... you'll see there's so much more of a value put on [music]. You're not seen as a black sheep, you're seen as an artist. You get paid, you get treated well, and you get your breaks.

Bill Saunders

It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing [on Shane Warne].

Arjuna Ranatunga

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

James Hogg

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Larry Flynt

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

Snow leopards go for baby yaks, and they kill sheep and goats.

Som Ale

The idea is that they will be able to use the sheep for wool and the goat for milk.

Jim Grasela

For me, the most interesting thing was that... much of our interactions with Electric Sheep took place in Second Life , avatar to avatar. The social aspects of Second Life were a very interesting part of the project for me because a lot of this took place in that world, even though it was a real-world contract between two companies.

Larry Johnson

To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add sheep was a tautology.

Mark Twain

It was akin to an animal being slaughtered, ... It was literally how you slaughter sheep. ...They slit the throat (at) the two carotid arteries, and they severed the head.

Bernard Haykel

Where was Kofi Annan when Saddam was slaughtering the Iraqis like sheep?

Hazem Sha'alan

New Zealand investors behave like a bunch of sheep.

Arthur Lim

For the least amount of stress, we just put her back with her group. When I checked on her a little while ago, she was eating and socializing with the other sheep. She's actually doing pretty well.

Mark Shaw

George, a camel, stepped on the foot of a Rockette; six sheep came off the elevator as three kings bearing gifts got on; human Christmas trees bumped into eight maids-a-milking at the water cooler and an elf came down with the flu.

William E. Geist

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.

Max Beerbohm

I try not to cut the sheep, or ruin the fleece.

Sharon Allen

Our Lord said, "Feed my sheep"; he did not say, "Count them."

Dora Chaplin

We're in a good situation in that we have a lot of habitat that doesn't have sheep right now in the Badlands. The limiting factor in the past has been availability of sheep and funding.

Brett Wiedmann

He was willing to do whatever was required in order to be the serial killer that he was, ... He's like the wolf preying on the weak sheep.

Robert Mcclure

It's never an easy call to kill a sheep like that, ... but in this current situation, that's been one of the needs, to get fresh samples.

Daniel Patterson

He's a baby and he likes to play with the sheep.

Maria Neopolitan

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

Jake Gyllenhaal

The action of a shepherd in keeping sheep, performed as I have said in his kind, is as good a work before God as is the action of a judge in giving sentence, or of a magistrate in ruling, or a minister in preaching.

William Perkins

I heard crackling that sounded just like the saplings breaking in the ice storm we had last year. Then I heard a boom and the sheep and dogs. When I opened my blurry eyes, I could see the glow and knew the barn was on fire.

Jeff Freeman

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

Marilyn Manson

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Northrop Frye

The fact that the main proposals to emerge are limits on health insurance and mortgage interest deductions reveal the usual Washington mindset of how to more efficiently shear the taxpaying sheep.

Leo Linbeck

People say 'well gosh he must know something I don't know'. And, sometimes developers are like sheep. They all follow one another. And, we've already had follow ups from people in New York and Dallas and Kansas City.

Jim Norton

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

Tiberius Caesar

Like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Denis Healey

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'

Margo Kaufman

In the entire state of Arizona, we sell less than a hundred sheep permits. This is not a lucrative business. It's not about money. We lose money on the sheep management program.

Jim Devos

We are no longer the black sheep on this issue. Europe is united on this. It shares the values that we have defended.

Renaud Donnedieu De Vabres

A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations.

Jefferson Machamer

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

Malcolm Bradbury

Is it safe? I don't know, maybe it is. Is it pure? Who knows what's going on in the body ? is it doing anything? All we know is if you're a sheep it can be very bad for you. Would you take something based on that?

Gary Wadler

People who live in this area depend on livestock, raising goats, sheep, cows, yaks and horses.

Som Ale

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Kirk Hammett

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

W. R. Inge

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

A. P. Herbert

He is like the sheep dog in the cartoons, ... Guarding the goats is his job and that is all he cares about. He doesn't want to lick you on the hand; he just wants to be left alone to do his job.

Jeff Wilson

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

Ken Blanchard

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

James Hogg

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.

Polish Proverb

I am like a sheep going to the slaughter; but I am as calm as a summer's day.

Dr. Joseph Smith

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Carl Van Doren

The next day they noticed that there was a blanket in the sheep barn and some sticks. A candle was found yesterday afternoon on top of a heater in the barn.

Mark Shaw

That's the same kind of thing that employers need to be doing to be more professional and effective at training anybody, no matter what age they are. The sheep-dip approach isn't working any more.

Dianah Worman

It is very hard to count the number of all male and young sheep in a herd.

George Schaller

Wolf proponents expound that more cattle and sheep die of disease, [or from] coyote or dog predation than they do from wolves, ... I don't know what I'm missing but that doesn't sound like a good argument to add wolves into the mix to me.

Sharon Beck

We had some students who put on Radio 1, but the sheep didn't like the thumping beat at all. They just stood at the door in confusion.

Karen Wright

Kentucky really is the black sheep of the south.

William Wilson

We are no longer the black sheep on this issue.

Renaud Donnedieu De Vabres

We embarked upon this expedition back in 1998, after Dolly, the sheep, was cloned.

Gordon Woods

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Elizabeth Kenny

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Edgar R. Fiedler

This will eliminate the need for the tent and free up more space in the hog and sheep barns.

Earl Allen

They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, but they are going up too.

Earl Allen