Top 111 Ox Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
He that steals an egg will steal an ox.
Nobody is going to tell me Marshawn Lynch can't run. He's strong as an ox.
But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.
Someone once asked me, 'How can you get as strong as an ox without eating any meat?' My answer was, 'Have you ever seen an ox eating meat?'
Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human.
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
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.
Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.
One law for the lion and ox is oppression.
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.
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.
One ox, two oxen. One fox, two foxen.
Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.
The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.
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.
I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.
And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.
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.
He's as strong as an ox...and ALMOST as smart!
I'm as healthy as an ox.
A great ox stands on my tongue.
People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
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.
Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
'West To A Land Of Plenty' shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.
Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
I will be master of what is mine own:
She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
My household stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.
Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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.
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.
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.
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.]
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.
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.
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.
"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.
The ox suffers, the cart complains.
The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?
An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.
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.
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.
A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
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.
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.
He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.
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.
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
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.
