The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
Suzanne Fields

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

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
Northrop Frye

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Carl Van Doren

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.
Robert Grosseteste

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

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

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Austin O'Malley

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

They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
Ed Asner

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

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Ken Blanchard

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

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George S. Patton

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
Bill Maher

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.
Jake Gyllenhaal

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