Top 76 The Ox Quotes
#1. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
William Cobbett
#2. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
Anonymous
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
Pino Caruso
#7. There are going to be animals in Heaven. The prophet Isaiah said that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, ... and the lion shall eat straw like the ox (Isaiah 11:6-9).
David Berg
#8. Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.
Laozi
#10. 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 Lenz
#11. Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.
Johannes Trithemius
#12. The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.
Henry Ward Beecher
#13. The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.
Horace
#14. If the ox of an Israelite bruise the ox of a Gentile, the Israelite is exempt from paying damages; but should the ox of a Gentile bruise the ox of an Israelite, the Gentile is bound to recompense him in full.' -- Bava Kama, fol. 38, Col. 2"
-- Hebraic Literature, page 31
Maurice H. Harris
#15. If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
Xenocrates
#16. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse and the ox, he borrowed the carrying strength of water and the driving force of the wind, he quickened his fire by blowing, and his simple tools, pointed first with copper and then with iron, increased and varied
H.G.Wells
#17. Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Your neighbor is clearly a male, and the woman, the ox and the ass are property of the male. That's not morality I will salute today.
John Shelby Spong
#19. 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
#20. There his tormentors yanked him from the ox's belly, then reached in to pluck out the beast's entrails, which they used to whip him about his body and face.29
Thomas B. Allen
#21. The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?
Leigh Bardugo
#22. Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with an impure mind, suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox. Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with peaceful mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Joseph Goldstein
#23. 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
#24. The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#25. If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.
Austin O'Malley
#26. He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox.
Chinese Sayings
Helen Evans Brown
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Watching his cofarmer return to the cove, Runt had the strangest sensation: a kind of foreknowing, as if he and Ox were immortal and ancient in this alien place.
Damon Suede
#33. ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
Ambrose Bierce
#34. 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
#35. Richard Collins had only taken weeks to destroy the little boy I'd known. He was this shell, okay? This empty shell, and I didn't know how to fix it. And then, Ox. Oh, and then there was you." She
T.J. Klune
#36. 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
#37. Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said. "Is it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccuped their way into history?
Barry Hughart
#39. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way ... But lo! men have become the tools of their tools ... We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb.
Henry David Thoreau
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. From the older ox the younger learns to plough.
Amitav Ghosh
#44. If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.
Zhuangzi
#45. Where there are no oxen, the stalls are clean, But where there are abundant crops, the strength of an ox is evident.
Anonymous
#46. The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
#47. 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
#48. He was a dastardly fellow," the beer mug continued happily. "Truly repugnant. And smelled! Oh, lad, the stench could knock over an ox!
M.L. LeGette
#49. The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
Steven Biko
#50. We might even say that the one thing which separates a saint from ordinary men is his readiness to be one with ordinary men. In this sense the word ordinary must be understood in its native and noble meaning; which is connected with the word order.
G.K. Chesterton
#51. He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.
Stieg Larsson
#52. If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but ... to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.
Grace Hopper
#53. But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.
Robert H. Jackson
#54. The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
[Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]
Horace
#55. In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco
the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity
had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.
Joseph Conrad
#56. Red always felt a little too big for his own body, like he was a clumsy ox locked in the china shop that was romance.
Barry Reese
#57. An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao-Tzu
#58. Although her book did include compelling recipes for scrapple, ox cheek, and baked calf's head and tips for the preparation of raccoon, possum, snipe, plovers, and blackbirds (for blackbird pie) and "how to broil, fricassee, stew or fry a squirrel," it was much more than just a cookbook.
Erik Larson
#59. In this new hall the factions regroup in their old places. Legendre the butcher bawls out a Brissotin: "I'll slaughter you!" "First," says the deputy, "have a decree passed to say that I am an ox.
Hilary Mantel
#60. 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
#61. Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
Erich Honecker
#62. 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
#63. People love to compare the worst of themselves to animals: dumb as an ox, fat as a pig, lame as a duck. Maybe animals see our shortcomings the same way: boneheaded as a human.
Bruce Edwards
#64. The transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS./WI. UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM:
James Joyce
#65. They lined you up in kindergarten, alphabetically. On fourth-grade field trips you took your partner's hand to push past the musk ox or the steam turbine. School was a perpetual lineup, ending in this final one.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#66. The end of an ox is beef, the end of a lie is grief.
- Serious Men
Manu Joseph
#67. To make an ox or water buffalo work so hard, it needs to be blinded and uninformed. That's what the government is doing to the masses now.
Lisa See
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.
Rachael Ray
#71. Immoral is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.
Ambrose Bierce
#72. Physical stamina is a component in leadership, even in the modern world, where it isn't necessary to be able to harness an ox.
Because it is still impressive if you can.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#73. I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark ... my value unhangable.
Marina Leigh Duff
#74. To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.
Barry Hughart
#75. The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#76. 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
