It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
I'm not a sheep.
After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.