Ox Quotes

72 Ox quotes by 62 unique authors

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
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
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
The ox suffers, the cart complains. — Victor Hugo
I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard. — Rachael Ray
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
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
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
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
A great ox stands on my tongue. — Aeschylus
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

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