Sheep Quotes

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

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

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.

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

I love the lambs, not the sheep.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

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

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

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

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

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

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.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

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.

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

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.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

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.

I'm not a sheep.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.