For those not quite ready to put away that holiday lighting yet .......

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill. ~Richard H. Davis

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.  ~Barry Humphries

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup. ~Loretta Young

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.  ~Alan Patrick Herbert

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

 

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

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

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

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

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