Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

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

We're a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky.

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

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.

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

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

My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror."

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.

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

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

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

I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

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.

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

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

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

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

It makes it very hard for us to warn people about the wolves when the leaders of the sheep are associating with the wolves.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

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.

What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.

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

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

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.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

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?

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

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.

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!

Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

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

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.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

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