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But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we likesheep havegoneastray; wehaveturned everyoneto his own way; and the L hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-clouds thundrous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass isgreen, lakes damp, and mountains steep And,Wordsworth, both are thine.

—Stephen,J(ames) K(enneth)

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

—Dick, Philip K(indred)

We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done. And we have done those things which we ought not to have done. And there is no health in us.

—Book of Common Prayer

   I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.Iamthegood shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold: them also must I bring, and theyshall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

—Bible (NewTestament)

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

—Bible (NewTestament)

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninetyand nine in the wilderness, andgoafter that whichislost, until hefind it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Better one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.

—Mussolini, Benito also called Il Duce [the Leader]

Theyare sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs 578 Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

—Milton,John

Type of a coming nation, In the land of cattle and sheep, Worked on Middleton's station, 'Pound a week and his keep.'

—Lawson, Henry Hertzberg

Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat.

—Plum

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to eternity, God ha'mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

I'm lying in bed counting sheep when all of a sudden it hits me†a character like Samson, Hercules and all the strong men I heard tell of rolled into one.Only more so.

—Siegel,Jerome

If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

—Tennyson

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met a host, and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it.

—Peacock,Thomas Love

I am forgetting myself into admiring a mountain which is of no use for sheep. This is wrong. A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it.

—Butler, Samuel

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly- mobileöand the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.

—Thompson, Hunter S(tockton)

No little lily-handed baronet he, A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron of some thirty charities, A pamphleteer on guano and on grain.

—Tennyson

It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

—White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

That part of hisspeech wasrather like being savaged bya dead sheep.

—Healey, Denis Winston Healey, Baron

Imyself believethat wehave lostthiswaröineverything but actuality.When I see scores of sheep go to a slaughter-house I do not feel constrained to admire their resignation.

—Grieve

All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him and rejoice. Know that the Lord is God indeed; Without our aid he did us make: We are his folk, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.

—Scottish Metrical Psalms

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

—Gosse, Sir Edmund

Behold,I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Ocome, let ussing untothe Lord; let usheartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God; and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth; and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

—Book of Common Prayer

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holyangels with him, then shall he sit upon thethrone of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

—Bible (NewTestament)

I didn't set out to be a feminist writer. I just look at the sheep out of the window and watch their behaviour.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.

—Langland,William

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind- legs.But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)

   Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves'eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flockof sheep that are evenshorn, whichcameup from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. Thy two breasts are liketwo young roesthat aretwins, which feed among the lilies.Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and tothehill of frankincense.Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator, Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves. The sailor tells stories of the winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier lists his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

—Propertius, Sextus   1c

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

—Inge,William Ralph

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much- quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair