Oxen Quotes

36 quotes by 31 authors

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of… — Karl Marx
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair… — Joni Mitchell
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
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. — William Butler Yeats
My, g**, he was as strong as a team of oxen. That would be strong right? — James Patterson
I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an… — Jay Asher
Ready or not, here I come I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek Olly olly oxen free Show yourself, you're scaring… — Sonya Sones
One ox, two oxen. One fox, two foxen. — Jenny Lawson
The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants… — Eknath Easwaran
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far… — Bible
And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? For he is… — Bible
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And… — Bible
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, / Have we not power to eat and to drink? / Have we not power… — Bible
He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any… — Horace
For my mother, against her will, is beset by suitors, own sons to the men who are greatest hereabouts. These shrink from making the journey… — Telemachos
Suffering follows a negative thought as the wheels of a cart follow the Oxen that draw it — The Dhammapada

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