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

In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses. — Facundo Pieres

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

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

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man. — Henry David Thoreau

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

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment. — George Nethercutt

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

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

I dare say a good many ... would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief, but I'm afraid I'm not much good at that. — Richard Adams

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. — Laurence J. Peter

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

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost. — Allen Klein

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

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed. — Frederick Schiller Faust

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows. — William A. Drake

The same good folk who would burn me for a psychal now paid me to use my cursed gramarye to guard their sheep. — Hazel Butler

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end. — Lou Gramm

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them. — Austin O'Malley

There is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.' — Benjamin Franklin

An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mary had a little sheep,
With the sheep she went to sleep.
The sheep turned out to be a ram,
And Mary had a little lamb. — Steven Tyler

Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. — A.W. Tozer

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern. — Edna Ferber

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man. — Haruki Murakami

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ... Most of them are stupid. — Ken Follett

The people are like a flock of sheep, following where leaders lead them. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.] — Pope Pius II

Losses and adversities are frequently the means which the great Shepherd uses to fetch home His wandering sheep! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain

Ritual numbs the brain. Repetition is grass for sheep. — Karen Marie Moning

Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,
But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:
He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. — William Shakespeare

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep. — Alexander Pope

Respect the sheep. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. — Ezra Pound

My lips went inside the sheep's fur. It was my first kiss. What is this. Why did the staff make me do this?! — Onew

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action. — P.G. Wodehouse

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees? — William Shakespeare

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter — Robert Greene

We couldn't bring the sheep back to life, so there was nothing for it but to eat the evidence. — Karen Maitland

Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the sheep; I love the ceremony. — Confucius

When I look up at the clouds I see so many animals, mostly sheep who have lost their limbs and heads. — Demetri Martin

If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar. — Jim Elliot

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

Now I remember why I hate eating sheep. Horrible, fluffy things that give me hair balls and indigestion. ( Saphira from the Eragon Series) — Christopher Paolini

Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep. — Unknown

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. — Virgil

My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.' — Asif Kapadia

Most of their leaders were evil and deceptive, and the majority of the populations followed like sheep being led to slaughter. I — Cameo Renae

good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep — Anne Lamott

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. — Edward Abbey

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

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

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

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

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

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

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. — Leo Tolstoy

The light of morning decomposes everything. — Haruki Murakami

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher. — Winston Churchill

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. — Carl Clinton Van Doren

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

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

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

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

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

To create a kind of balance between a butcher and a sheep, you either take the knife from the butcher or teach the sheep how to use a knife! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

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

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

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

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