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How good is God! How sweet his yoke! -- Jean Racine
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery. -- Aeschylus
Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke. -- William Wordsworth
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. -- William Shakespeare
The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear. -- Edwin Louis Cole
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke. -- Robert Herrick
How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune! -- Madame de Stael
Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. -- William Shakespeare
O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh -- William Shakespeare
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes. -- Charles Spurgeon
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. -- Honore de Balzac
Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. -- Matthew Prior
I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there. -- Laurence Olivier
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. -- John Jay Chapman
Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism. -- John Doolittle
I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. -- Davy Crockett
It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Frederick William Robertson
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society. -- Emile Durkheim
Delivered from the galling yoke of time. -- William Wordsworth
My yoke is easy, and my burden light. -- Saint Boniface
The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke. -- Horace
Break away from every yoke of bondage in Jesus Name. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke... -- Dallas Willard
[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony. -- James Madison
One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it. -- Carl Jung
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. -- Paul Eldridge
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. -- George Eliot
Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things." (p. 202) -- Bill Gaultiere
The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings? -- Leigh Bardugo
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. -- Plato
Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work. -- Samuel Rutherford
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. -- Edmund Waller
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. -- William C. Bryant
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. -- George Eliot
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.] -- Ovid
To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure. -- Pindar
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it. -- Samuel Adams
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue. -- R. H. Barlow
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power. -- Mark Hopkins
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. -- Wole Soyinka
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. -- Ximenes Doudan
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. -- William Kristol
Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free. -- Robert Southey
The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. -- Joseph Joubert
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? -- Andy Zaltzman
Europe really needs to wake up, cast aside the lies and get rid of the Jewish yoke we live under - once and for all. -- Varg Vikernes
Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive. -- Lauren Willig
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
I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. -- John Milton
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others. -- George Jean Nathan
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed. -- Seneca the Younger
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground. -- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke. -- Elisabeth Elliot
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more. -- Robert Falls
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did. -- James Madison
Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies. -- Robert Browning
When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both. -- Marya Mannes
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism. -- Benazir Bhutto
You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty. -- John F. Kennedy
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world. -- George Eliot
The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance. -- Mary McCarthy

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