Sheep Quotes

• It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Life, Being Strong, Wisdom

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• Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

  Plautus

  Conflict, Far Away

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• Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

  Allen Klein

  Focus, Looks, Nibbling

  Allen Klein (1989). “The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff”, Tarcher

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• A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Government, Political, Liberty

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• 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

  Dog, Laughing, Being Different

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• Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd.

  Marshall Sylver

  Order, Opposites, Shepherds

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• Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Gun, Liberty, Lions

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• Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Fear, Liberty

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.108, Regnery Publishing

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• We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• 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

  Life, Believe In Yourself, Track

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• A sheep in sheep's clothing.

  Winston Churchill

  Witty, Clothings

  Quoted in GeoffreyWillans and Charles Roetter, The Wit of Winston Churchill (1954)

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• Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

  Sue Grafton

  Ideas, Goats, Execution

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• If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.

  Robert Jordan

  Wings, Wish, Ifs

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  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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

  Stendhal

  Leadership, Peace, Motivation

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• The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

  Edna Ferber

  Goats, Busybodies, Concern

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Waiting, Conformity

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.338, Courier Corporation

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• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  James Bovard

  Humor, Two, Democracies Have

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

  Thomas Fuller

  Peace, Fidgeting, Madness

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• Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Years, Ku Klux Klan

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• Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Humanity, Liberty

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

  Rajneesh

  Individuality, World, Want

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• If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Mean, Want, Existence

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• We're a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky.

  Alan Abel

  Sky, People, Looks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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