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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. -- James Howell
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
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
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
Beauty drawes more then oxen. -- George Herbert
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. -- Samuel Johnson
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. -- Francois Rabelais
Too slow, the wagons of years, The oxen of days--too glum. Our god is the god of speed, Our heart--our battle-drum. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. -- Jules Renard
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
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 anxieties of gain. -- Horace
Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi. In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit. -- Ovid
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 me Come out, come out, where ever you are You've taken this thing way too far -- Sonya Sones
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, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger. -- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen. -- Henry David Thoreau
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 oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. -- Gautama Buddha
Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not the quacks even direct small doses for children, larger for adults, and larger still for oxen and horses? Let us remember that we are to prescribe for the globe itself. -- Henry David Thoreau
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 devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. -- Henry David Thoreau
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 of oxen. -- Joni Mitchell
Beauty draws more than oxen. -- George Herbert
One ox, two oxen. One fox, two foxen. -- Jenny Lawson
My, g**, he was as strong as a team of oxen. That would be strong right? -- James Patterson
If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image. -- Xenophanes
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. -- William Winwood Reade
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
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 olly-olly-oxen-free. -- Jay Asher
Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck. -- Horace
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 interest to pay -- Horace

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