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Definition of Sheep
Sheep
Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

A weak, bashful, silly fellow.

Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.

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In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill

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

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
Charlie Sheen

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

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



Sheep Translations
sheep in Afrikaans is skaap
sheep in Dutch is schaap
sheep in French is gobeur
sheep in German is Schafe, Schaf
sheep in Italian is pecora
sheep in Latin is ovis ovis
sheep in Portuguese is ovelha, carneiros
sheep in Spanish is oveja, borrego


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