“In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn’t budge a log, they didn’t try to grow… — Tom White Copy Share Image
If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When… — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“To my amusement, a traffic sign prohibited ox carts from passing by revolutionary sites, out of fear that the oxen would defecate… — Felix Abt Copy Share Image
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image