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Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep. — Bill Bryson

I don't follow sheep — A.K. Anders

Men are different; sheep are all alike. — Raheel Farooq

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. — George Herbert

I know a rancher like you down below Hell's Canyon. He runs about six cows and five thousand sheep. But he calls himself a cattleman. — Loren D. Estleman

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end. — Anne Sexton

But for the young Laban, these black sheep were sympathetic figures, and by letting them appear on stage, he gave them an opportunity to be heard. — Evelyn Doerr

Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared! — Dougie Poynter

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon. — Sharon Horgan

One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them. — Dion Fortune

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. — Mahatma Gandhi

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. — Thomas Love Peacock

People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963 — Sylvia Plath

If wishes were wings, sheep would fly. — Robert Jordan

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. — George Washington

You should never trust a wolf in sheep's clothing. Because the only thing the wolf will ever want to do is break you. — Rachel E. Carter

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep. — Denis Healey

Loving God, allow me to be a sheep at least once in a while, and never let me forget that most of my life I have been a goat. — Richard Rohr

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. — Henri La Fontaine

Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow — Ogden Nash

Lions care not for the opinions of sheep. — George R R Martin

Elections; when the sheep get to decide which wolf will eat them - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep! — Benito Mussolini

If you count sheep before you go to sleep, are you barrrrr'd from dreams? — Benny Bellamacina

Altogether too many sheep — George Bernard Shaw

Sheep buggerers!" he roared. "I was only going to eat your women and rape your men until you did that! — Nathan Hawke

The sheep man has his world. I have mine. And you have yours, too. Am I right? — Haruki Murakami

To rally every black sheep is my goal. — Julian Cope

Gotta have a rusted out red farm truck to prove you're a farmer in Sonoma, or a sheep-milk dairy man. - Jake Knight in GUT-CHECK GREEN. — Peter Prasad

One lost sheep among a thousand
breaks the shepherd's heart;
one lost soul among a thousand
breaks God's heart. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Stick to the sheep," the armsmaster advised impudently. "They don't snore. — Anonymous

Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon. — Dionne Warwick

I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep. — Jeremy Hardy

Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, for they will feed you delicious morsels that they may later feast upon your tender flesh. — Michele Faison

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. — George Herbert

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment. — Kristin Cast

Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken. — Karen Marie Moning

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower. — Dustin Diamond

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. — Matthew Quick

Today, the society called New Zealand is composed of 4.5 million Sapiens and 50 million sheep. — Yuval Noah Harari

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch. — Barbara Kingsolver

Nothing could be more impolite. To say, "Is your sheep genuine?" would be a worse breach of manners. — Philip K. Dick

A black sheep is a biting beast. — Thomas Bastard

It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf. — Nenia Campbell

Do you know why it is that when a rancher fucks a sheep he does it at the edge of a cliff? It's so the sheep will push back. — George Carlin

Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell. — Voltaire

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R. Murrow

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found? — Donna Tartt

And shame it is, if that a priest take keep, To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep: — Geoffrey Chaucer

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor. — John Ray

If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them. — Densey Clyne

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year. — Elvis Presley

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure. — George Herbert

Windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Baseball regards us as sheep. — Curt Flood

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly. — Jim Butcher

I love me a good sheep. — Edgar Allan Poe

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs. — Paul O'Grady

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food. — John Harvey Kellogg

If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep get smaller when it rains? — Ron Brackin

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep. — Kate Clinton

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races. — Jeannette Walls

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. — Edward Abbey

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep. — Stefan Molyneux

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep. — Frederic Goudy

Camels are snobbish
and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic
even murderous.
Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore

Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold. — Vance Havner

Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already — Michel Faber

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. — Andre Rieu

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. — Sue Grafton

Your grace, come back, Senor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep ! — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it's best to keep your tally down. — Donna Lynn Hope

Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep. — Libba Bray

Men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — George S. Patton

A family without a black sheep is not a typical family. — Heinrich Boll

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late. — Rita Mae Brown

Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat. — Donald Hall

In for a sheep, in for a gargant. — Jim Butcher

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security. — Norman Vincent Peale

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

Let the sheep bleat. Their own noises soothe them. — Leah Raeder

In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep. — Nathanael West

She could hear a distant coughing of a sheep. — D.H. Lawrence

Most of my life is in the past.
There goes some more of it.

I taught my sheep how to fight lions
so I would have more time — Chad Sweeney

If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection. — Umar

a huddle of robot sheep bleating their terror with mechanical lungs of a hundred horsepower. — Sinclair Lewis

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. — Karen Marie Moning

Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves. — Pierce Brown

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies. — Magenta Periwinkle

And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you. — Julia Quinn

The fact is that they always go after your weakest point - the wolves chase down the weakest sheep in the herd. — Haruki Murakami

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep. — Esther Meynell

Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family. — Alan Moore

The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock is always important. — Leonie Swann

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce. — Bear Grylls

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

what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals? — Ocean Vuong