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?
I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.
In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat
Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
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.
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.
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.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
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.
Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
It makes it very hard for us to warn people about the wolves when the leaders of the sheep are associating with the wolves.
. . . there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. '
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.