Sheep Quotes

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.

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

I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

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

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

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

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

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

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

A black sheep is a biting beast.

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

When I can't sleep, I don't count sheep. I count lovers. And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

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

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.

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

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

In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

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

In the same way humans have domesticated sheep and other animals by murdering the strong ones and breeding the docile, obedient ones, the powers-that-be have done the same with the masses.

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.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

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.

God has, in fact, thought of us from eternity and has loved us as unique individuals. He has called every one of us by name, as the Good Shepherd 'calls His sheep by name.'

I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.

In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.

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

Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd.

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

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.

I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.