Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Mochrie

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.

J. Reuben Clark

The ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep's clothing, because they wear the habiliments of the priesthood…We should be careful of them.

Joseph Sobran

So when the wolf pounces on your lamb, just ignore the pitiful bleating and remind yourself that this is a democracy, where every sheep can freely express its preference for which kind of wolf it wants to be eaten by. Many sheep, perhaps understandably, prefer a wolf in sheep's clothing, which is after all the basic idea of democracy. So far it has worked pretty well. The wolves all agree on that, and they want to spread democracy everywhere.

Jim Butcher

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

Ice Cube

The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.

Evelyn Underhill

As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

Henri La Fontaine

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds

George Herbert

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

George Herbert

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

Chris Vance

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

Jeff Lindsay

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

Graham Chapman

One thing for sure - a sheep is not a creature of the air.

George R. R. Martin

A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

Jeffrey Klein

Most reporters are sheep in wolves' clothing.

Jim Elliot

If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

Nikolai Gogol

Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

Madonna Ciccone

Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep.

Mason Cooley

A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.

Michael Grant

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.

You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.

Johnny Kelly

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

John Milton

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

John Milton

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

Michael Lewis

That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.

P. G. Wodehouse

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

George Bernard Shaw

Altogether too many sheep

Gary Larson

It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

George Herbert

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.

George Herbert

Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

George Nethercutt

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

Joan Robinson

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.

Toni Morrison

Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.