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Sheep Quotes

"I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep."
- Talleyrand

"And what is the Scientific Community doing about these problems, young people? THEY'RE CLONING SHEEP. Great! Just what we need! Sheep that look MORE ALIKE than they already do! Thanks a lot, Scientific Community!"
- Dave Barry

"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
- Elizabeth Kenny

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
- Winston Churchill

"It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be."
- Virgil,

"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
- William Ralph Inge

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

"I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'"
- Margo Kaufman

"To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him."
- Shunryu Suzuki

Gentlemen-Rankers
We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,
Baa! Baa! Baa!
We're little black sheep who've gone astray,
Baa-aa-aa!
Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha' mercy on such as we,
Baa! Yah! Bah!
- Rudyard Kipling

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
- Laurence Sterne

(of Clement Attlee)
A sheep in sheep's clothing.
- Sir Winston Churchill

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

The Lamb
Little Lamb, who made thee?
Dost thou know who made thee?
- William Blake

Lycidas 123
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.
- John Milton

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

A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.
- Saki