Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 283
Sunni Hadith
“Even so a shepherd, seeking safety for his flock, lures the wolves at night by the bleating of a tethered lamb into the pitfall masked by a slender covering of leafage.”
Book VI, lines 329–331
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Nahum Tate (1652–1715) Anglo-Irish poet and playwright
Hymn While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Widely attributed to Franklin on the Internet, sometimes without the second sentence. It is not found in any of his known writings, and the word "lunch" is not known to have appeared anywhere in English literature until the 1820s, decades after his death. The phrasing itself has a very modern tone and the second sentence especially might not even be as old as the internet. Some of these observations are made in response to a query at Google Answers. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=389308<br>The earliest known similar statements are: <br class="br">A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. <br class="br">Gary Strand, Usenet group sci.environment, 23 April 1990. http://groups.google.com/group/sci.environment/msg/057b1c6389f4776f?dmode=source <br class="br">Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. <br class="br">Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times, 12 January 1992. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-12/local/me-358_1_jail-tax-individual-rights-san-diego <br class="br">Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. <br class="br">James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994), ISBN 0312123337, p. 333. <br class="br">Also cited as by Bovard in the Sacramento Bee (1994) http://www.giraffe.com/gr_wolves.html <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
“To the governors who recommended burdensome taxes for his provinces, he [Tiberius] wrote in answer that it was the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not skin it.”
Praesidibus onerandas tributo provincias suadentibus rescripsit boni pastoris esse tondere pecus non deglubere.
Tiberius (-42–37 BC) 2nd Emperor of Ancient Rome, member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
From Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, III. Tiberius, Ch. 32; translation by J. C. Rolfe
Latter component of the quotation often paraphrased as Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.
Indirect quotations
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
From a speech given at the Royal Academy of Art in 1953; quoted in Time magazine (11 May 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 100; Cited in Virginia K. Baillie et al. (1989) Effective Nursing Leadership: A Practical Guide. p. 244.
“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.”
XXII. 262–263 (tr. Samuel Butler); Achilles to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“As their shepherd have a deep concern for the condition of my flock. Help us, save our souls.”
Joseph Theodorus Suwatan (1940) Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop
Bishop Urges U.N. Intervention as More Christian Villages Attack https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/2001/12/04/bishop-urges-un-intervention-as-more-christian-villages-attacked&post_id=19714 (3 December 2001)
