Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of…

— Henry David Thoreau

And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made…

— John the Apostle

Beauty draws more than oxen.

— George Herbert

Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their…

— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the…

— Eknath Easwaran

“Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes? It seems to…

— Walt Whitman

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium…

— Karl Marx

Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle of Hebrew…

— Richard J. Foster

If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need…

— Grace Hopper

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

— James Howell

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

— William Butler Yeats

If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the…

— Xenophanes

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

— Seymour Cray

It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of their symbols.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.

— Gautama Buddha