A wolf in sheep's clothing. [ Proverb ]
Good pastures make fat sheep. [ As You Like It ]
As rich as a new-shorn sheep. [ Proverb ]
Better be a shrew than a sheep. [ Proverb ]
One dog can drive a flock of sheep. [ Proverb ]
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. [ Proverb ]
Death devours lambs as well as sheep. [ Proverb ]
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street,
Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
And how he keeps
Gloating upon a sheep's
Or bullock's personals, as if his own;
How he admires his halves
And quarters - and his calves,
As if in truth upon his own legs grown. [ Hood ]
You owed me a sheep but paid me a lamb. [ Proverb ]
As good be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. [ Proverb ]
Who knows who may keep sheep another day? [ Proverb ]
Better give the wool than the whole sheep. [ Proverb ]
Where every one fleeces the sheep go naked. [ Proverb ]
The crow bewails the sheep and then eats it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is possible for a sheep to kill a butcher. [ Proverb ]
Stay till you have sheep before you shear them. [ Proverb ]
Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them. [ Proverb ]
The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A good man is no more to be feared than a sheep. [ Proverb ]
Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful. [ Proverb ]
The wolf is not scared by the number of the sheep. [ Proverb ]
The wolf eats off the sheep that have been warned. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One scabby sheep is enough to infect a whole flock. [ Proverb ]
To seek in a sheep five feet when there are but four. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The dust, raised by the sheep, does not choke the wolf. [ Proverb ]
He that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolf. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Love is as mad as Ajax, it kills sheep, so it kills me. [ Proverb ]
It is a madness for a sheep to send a challenge to a wolf. [ Proverb ]
It is a madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf. [ Proverb ]
That is a woeful silly sheep that goes to the wolf to confess. [ Proverb ]
While you trust to the dog the wolf slips into the sheep fold. [ Proverb ]
Rich men without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. [ Solon ]
Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep. [ Mme. Roland ]
It is a sheep of Beery, it is marked on the nose (applied to those that have a blow). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure. (This is probably the origin of God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness - when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton. [ H. W. Shaw ]
When we read that the lost sheep is preferred to the rest of the flock, we are tempted to think that penitence is preferable to innocence.
That is, in a great degree, true of all men, which was said of the Athenians, that they were like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. [ Whately ]
Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner. [ Dr. Johnson ]