Quotes About Ox

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

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

Lion's fat is regarded as a sure preventive of tsetse or bungo. This was noted before, but I add now that it is smeared on the ox's tail, and preserves hundreds of the Banyamwesi cattle in safety while going to the coast; it is also used to keep pigs and hippopotami away from gardens: the smell is probably the efficacious part in "Heresi," as they call it.

If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

There are no totally generous acts. All "acts" have an element of calculation. One black ox slaughtered on Christmas does not wipe out a year of careful manipulation of gifts given to serve your own ends. After all, to kill an animal and share the meat with people is really no more than Ju/'hoansi do for each other every day and with far less fan fare.

If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

In the wild, cattle roamed as they pleased in herds with a complex social structure. The castrated and domesticated ox wasted away his life under the lash and in a narrow pen, labouring alone or in pairs in a way that suited neither its body nor its social and emotional needs. When an ox could no longer pull the plough, it was slaughtered.

Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you, as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart. Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you, as your shadow unshakeable. Sayings of the Buddha

"Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.

It's not to be expected that an ox and an ass should worship at the crib. Animals are always doing the oddest things in the lives of the saints. It's all part of the poetry, the Alice-In-Wonderland side of religion.

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

The flesh of the ox was medically prescribed to enhance vigour.

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.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.

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.

4The only clean stable is an empty stable, So if you want the work of an ox And enjoy an abundant harvest, You'll have a mess or two to clean up!

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.

An ox is born and bred to carry our burdens. A saint is like an ox.

Le bÅ"uf et l'âne de la crèche de l'Enfant Jésus ne figurent pas dans les Évangiles ; ils sont une invention du Moyen Âge. Symboliquement, la coexistence de ces deux animaux signifiait le dépassement de la loi juive (laquelle interdisait justement d'atteler un bÅ"uf avec un âne) par la loi nouvelle, la loi chrétienne.

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.

Do you understand Christ to be more like an ox (excuse us, three oxen) or more like a door?