Oxen Quotes

36 quotes by 31 authors

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. — John le Carre
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? — Seymour Cray
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously… — Henry David Thoreau
The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. — Jonathan Swift
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a… — John the Apostle
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. — Samuel Johnson
If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms… — Xenophanes
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the… — Gautama Buddha
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.… — Gautama Buddha
The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a… — Isak Dinesen
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will… — George Bernard Shaw
The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists. — Gunter Grass
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. — James Howell
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,… — Jonathan Clements
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all… — Horace
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. — Francois Rabelais
Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care,… — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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