Ox Quotes

72 quotes by 64 authors

Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk… — Miles Davis
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests… — Thomas Merton
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a… — Jaron Lanier
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke. — Ambrose Bierce
The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel,… — Victoria Moran
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an… — Henry Ward Beecher
The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings? — Leigh Bardugo
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on… — Henry David Thoreau
And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a… — Dave Barry
I'm as healthy as an ox. — Julie Gold
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. — Gene Kelly
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me… — Ray Bradbury
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and… — Mark Twain
There are going to be animals in Heaven. The prophet Isaiah said that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie… — David Berg
Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. — John Barth
One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very… — Golda Meir
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at… — Alphonse de Lamartine
The tired ox treads with a firmer step. — St. Jerome
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as… — Karl Marx

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