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  • Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength Whether in oxen or in men, we dull The edges of our ploughshares, and in return Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed, And so today the farmer shakes his head, More and more often sighing that his work, The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

    Work   Mean   Men  
  • Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

    Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA
  • Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.

  • That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.

    Horse   Fall   Oxen  
  • Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.

    Dream   Buddhist   Horse  
  • 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.

  • And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

    Time   Oxen   Behinds  
    Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4
  • 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.

    Science   Oxen   Feet  
    Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works”, p.388
  • 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.

    Oxen   Land   Yoke  
  • 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.

    Home   Oxen   People  
  • 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.

    Sea   Oxen   Giving  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.182, Delphi Classics
  • It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of their symbols. It is as if an ox had strayed into a church and were trying to bethink himself. Nevertheless, they are capable of reverence; but we Yankees are a people in whom this sentiment has nearly died out, and in this respect we cannot bethink ourselves even as oxen.

    Yankees   Oxen   People  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Yankee in Canada”, p.17, Graphic Arts Books
  • 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.

    Horse   Children   Health  
    Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.164, Macmillan
  • Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

    Sex   Children   Book  
    Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin
  • One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

    Hair   Oxen   Pairs  
    'Familiar Letters' (1645-55) bk. 2, letter 4
  • The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

    Horse   Eye   Men  
  • One ox, two oxen. One fox, two foxen.

    Oxen   Two   Foxes  
    Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.197, Pan Macmillan
  • It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

    Oxen   Order   Folly  
    "Gargantua" by François Rabelais, ch. XI, 1534.
  • My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

    Men   Aquariums   White  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Two   Oxen  
  • Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

    Compassion   Sheep   Oxen  
    William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”
  • My, g**, he was as strong as a team of oxen. That would be strong right?

    Strong   Team   Oxen  
  • The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

    Men   Oxen   Forever  
  • 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.

    "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role . . . that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.
  • If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

    Witty   Strong   Powerful  
  • From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

    Art   Boys   Sea  
  • 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.

    God   Time   Oxen  
    Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4
  • 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

    Taken   Tired   Oxen  
  • 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.

    Time   Horse   Oxen  
  • If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.

    Art   Horse   Eye  
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