Ox Quotes
72 Ox quotes by 62 unique authors
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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
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The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?
— Leigh Bardugo
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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
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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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
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I'm as healthy as an ox.
— Julie Gold
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I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.
— Gene Kelly
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
— St. Jerome
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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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I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with…
— Megan Fox
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why,…
— Meister Eckhart
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
— Victor Hugo
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I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.
— Rachael Ray
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Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you…
— Juan Manuel Santos
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Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely…
— Eric Schmidt
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The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out…
— Barry Hughart
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too…
— A.C. Grayling
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A great ox stands on my tongue.
— Aeschylus
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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short…
— Hermann Hesse
Who Wrote These Ox Quotes
62 authors contributed a total of 72 Ox Quotes, led by these top contributors: