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Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do. -- Claes Oldenburg
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. -- Barry Hughart
The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down. -- Kevin Barry
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 and get killed. -- Barry Hughart
You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance. -- Claes Oldenburg
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 directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best. -- Ray Bradbury
Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li saidIs it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccuped their way into history?" -- Barry Hughart
Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch. -- David Hewson
I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm as healthy as an ox. -- Julie Gold
The ox suffers, the cart complains. -- Victor Hugo
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. -- Lao Tzu
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. -- Gene Kelly
Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism. -- Erich Honecker
I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard. -- Rachael Ray
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's. -- Moses
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 my bare hands. She's mesmerizing. -- Megan Fox
There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught. -- Nathaniel Smith
An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his. -- Daniel Morgan
The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse. -- Lysander Spooner
I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers and black holes, and my single visual hallucination of a little pink man and a pink ox on the floor of my bedroom. -- Siri Hustvedt
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 design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. -- Jaron Lanier
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 cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working. -- Juan Manuel Santos
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, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. -- Meister Eckhart
Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored. -- Eric Schmidt
I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others. -- Susan Glaspell
A great ox stands on my tongue. -- Aeschylus
The old ox plows a straight furrow -- English Proverb
One ox, two oxen. One fox, two foxen. -- Jenny Lawson
One law for lion and ox is oppression. -- William Blake
The tired ox treads with a firmer step. -- St. Jerome
Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke. -- Ambrose Bierce
He that steals an egg will steal an ox. -- George Herbert
He's as strong as an ox...and ALMOST as smart! -- Roddy Piper
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God. -- Xenocrates
He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells. -- Steig Larsson
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. -- Lao Tzu
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox. -- I. L. Peretz
He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human. -- Isaiah
And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb. -- Ambrose Bierce
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom. -- Gautama Buddha
But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores. -- Robert H. Jackson
The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings? -- Leigh Bardugo
A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad. -- Sophocles
An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding. -- Gautama Buddha
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it. -- Solomon
People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass. -- Pino Caruso
People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass. -- Pino Caruso
Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. -- Charlotte Bronte
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.] -- Horace
A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase. -- Anonymous
ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink. -- Melissa Lee-Houghton
The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are. -- Horace
Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. -- Henri Alain Liogier
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin. -- Karl Marx
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
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. -- Gautama Buddha
Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it. -- Sara Coleridge
I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species. -- Elizabeth Taylor
He's six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you'd say he has everything. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
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 eccentric. -- A.C. Grayling
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.] -- Horace
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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 fixed capital either. -- Karl Marx
Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox. -- Chanakya
I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking. -- Christopher Paolini
If you want the benefit of having an ox, you're going to have to endure the poo that comes with it. The goal is to have a positive poo to ox ratio. -- Mark Gungor
Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox. -- Dave Barry
A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over. -- Alice Hegan Rice
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver. -- Gene Kelly
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 in Jerusalem. And it is the same today. -- Thomas Merton
I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored. -- Betty White
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 dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with. -- Dave Barry
Msabu's bleeding. She does not have this ox. This lion is hungry. He does not have this ox. This wagon is heavy. It doesn't have this ox. God is happy, msabu. He plays with us. -- Karen Blixen

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