I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. – The Bible Matthew 10:16
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. – Laurence J. Peter
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. – James Hogg
Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they’re just looking for sheep that are easily impressed. – Johnny Kelly
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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. – Robert Grosseteste
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. – Oliver Cromwell
Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back. – Sextus Propertius
It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged. – Sojourner Truth
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. – Stendhal
