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| A little sheep always seems young. French. | 1 |
| A mild sheep is sucked by every lamb. Italian. | 2 |
| A sheep’s bite is never more than skin deep. Italian. | 3 |
| Coupled sheep drown one another. Dutch. | 4 |
| Every lamb knows its own dam. | 5 |
| Every time the sheep bleats it loseth a mouthful. | 6 |
| Good pastures make fat sheep. Shakespeare. | 7 |
| He who has sheep has fleeces. Spanish. | 8 |
| It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece. Danish. | 9 |
| It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf her confessor. | 10 |
| It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf. | 11 |
| Make thyself a sheep and the wolf is ready. Russian. | 12 |
| Make yourself a sheep and the wolves will eat you. Italian, French, German. | 13 |
| Many a sheep goes out woolly and comes home shorn. Danish. | 14 |
| One mangy sheep spoils a whole flock. Danish. | 15 |
| One sheep follows another. | 16 |
| One stable will hold many patient sheep. German. | 17 |
| Shear the sheep but don’t flay them. French. | 18 |
| Shear sheep that have them. | 19 |
| Silly sheep, where one goes all go. Spanish. | 20 |
| That is a woeful silly sheep that goes to the wolf to confess. | 21 |
| That sheep has his belly full that butts his companion. | 22 |
| The deceived sheep that went for wool came back shorn. Spanish. | 23 |
| The lamb goes to the spit as soon as the sheep. Don Quixote. | 24 |
| The lamb has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf. Chinese. | 25 |
| The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats. Dutch. | 26 |
| The sheep does not bite the wolf. German. | 27 |
| The sheep on the mountain is higher than the bull on the plain. French. | 28 |
| The sheep out of the fold, the wolf eats it. Modern Greek. | 29 |
| The sheep should have his belly full who quarrels with his mate. Benjamin Disraeli. | 30 |
| The sheep that bleats is strangled by the wolf. Italian. | 31 |
| The sheep that bleats most does not give the most wool. German. | 32 |
| The sheep that bleats most gives the least milk. Danish. | 33 |
| The sheep that bleats loses a mouthful. French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. | 34 |
| The sheep that is too tame is sucked by too many lambs. French. | 35 |
| The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail. Spanish. | 36 |
| ’Tis a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor. French, Italian. | 37 |
| When one sheep is over the dam the rest follow. Dutch. | 38 |
| When one sheep leads the way the rest follow. Chinese. | 39 |
| Where every hand fleeceth the sheep goes naked. | 40 |
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