Quotes on Sheep

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Author: Edward Abbey

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Author: Harry Banks

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

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

Author: Henri Fontaine

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

Author: Robert Grosseteste

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.

Author: Robert Grosseteste

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

Author: Howard Koch

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.

Author: Ernest Lehman

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

Author: Yves Montand

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

Author: George Nethercutt

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Author: Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Author: Austin O'Malley

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Author: Laurence Peter

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Author: Elvis Presley

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

Author: Stendhal

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

Author: Ann Wilson