Quotes of Ox - somelinesforyou

“ In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. ”

- G. Hopper

“ Whose talk is of bullocks. ”

- Bible

“ While he was not dumber than an ox he was not any smarter either. ”

- James Thurber

“ Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ”

- John LeCarre

“ A few years ago there was a poll in China to name the greatest man ever. The winner was Mao, but there was a tie for second between Zhou Enlai and Michael Jordan of the Chicago Red Oxen! ”

- Phil Knight

“ If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? ”

- Seymoure Cray

“ 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

“ 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

“ As the wheel follows the ox behind, we will become what our thoughts have made us. ”

- Buddha

“ While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either. ”

- James Thurber

“ The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. ”

- Henri Alain

“ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatredtherewith. ”

- Bible

“ 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

“ 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
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