I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. — Alexander The Great
I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat — Kendrick Lamar
It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life. — Sister Elizabeth Kenny
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. — Elizabeth Kenny
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R. Murrow
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you. — Benjamin Franklin
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. — Alexander Hamilton
I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them. — Thomas Harris
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. — CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep — Benito Mussolini
Sheep Image Quotes
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. — Robert A. Heinlein
A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
Funny Sheep Quotes
It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep. — Charles M. Schulz
If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out. — Mitch Hedberg
We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass. — George Carlin
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of other, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in you heart, the roar of freedom.
His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread. — Tom Hayden
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. — Charlie Sheen
Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. — Terry Pratchett
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
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
My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror." — Frank Carson
Counting Sheep Quotes
When I'm worried and I can't sleep,
I count my blessings instead of sheep.
And I fall asleep ...
counting my blessings. — Bing Crosby
When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep. — Irving Berlin
Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin — Douglas Adams
It is better to live one day as a lion than a 1000 years as a sheep.
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. — Miriam Hopkins
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking. — Dorothy Parker
The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there? — Elisabeth Elliot
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses. — A. J. Jacobs
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead. — Ogden Nash
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them. — Densey Clyne
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. — Mitch McConnell
Wolf And Sheep Quotes
To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand? — Sayings
There are wolves and there are sheep. Be a wolf. — Jordan Belfort
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. — Isaiah
A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel. — LeCrae
Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf. — Kahlil Gibran
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. — Abraham Lincoln
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. — Neal Barnard
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile. — Greg Bear
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. — John Gay
A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men. — Benjamin Franklin
Black Sheep Quotes
Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they’re not enslaved, then what are they? Free? — Gary Yourofsky
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. — Dustin Hoffman
I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep. — Ann Wilson
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. — Lisa Bonet
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star. — Alison Moyet
After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end. — Lou Gramm
I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am. — Sonny Bono
The Black sheep in any group is often just the person who sees through everyone else’s bullsh*t. — Steven Bartlett
I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me. — Michelle Pfeiffer
My grandmother is the black-sheep rebel of the family. — David Sinclair
Don't Be A Sheep Quotes
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! — Patrick Stewart
Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup. — Loretta Young
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
A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.' — Conan O'Brien
Black Sheep Of The Family Quotes
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. — Andre Rieu
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family. — Alan Moore
I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very Glee. — Lindsay Pearce
I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest. — Andrew Chan
The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves. — Bray Wyatt
If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep! — Benito Mussolini
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats — Charles Spurgeon
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. — Alexander Graham Bell
Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere. — Varg Vikernes
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both. — John Calvin
We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different. — David Icke
Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock. — Edward Said
The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern. — Edna Ferber
A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves. —
Looking does not quench the thirst and the female camel doesn't nurse the sheep. — Moroccan Proverbs
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. — Northrop Frye
More lambs than sheep are slaughtered. — Albanian Proverbs
Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep. — J. I. Packer
In Africa, there were few plants willing to be domesticated, and even fewer animals. Much of the land consists of jungle, swamp, desert, or steep-sided plateau, none of which lend themselves to the growing of wheat or rice, or sustaining herds of sheep. Africa's rhinos, gazelles, and giraffes stubbornly refused to be beasts of burden. — Tim Marshall
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless. — William Wordsworth
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain
If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need. — William L. McKnight
Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf. — Gerry Spence
Outside a sheep, inside a wolf — Greek Proverbs
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son. — Clarence Jordan
University students should rightly be exposed to a plurality of viewpoints as part of their intellectual growth, rather attending the 'flock of sheep association of like-minded individuals.' — Gad Saad
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