Oxen Quotes

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.
William Butler Yeats

Great, God, Black

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.
Joni Mitchell

Home, Nothing, West

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
John le Carre

Book, Movie, Seeing

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
James Howell

Woman, Hair, Draw

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.
Juan Manuel Santos

Democracy, Working, Same

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

Strong, Two, Rather

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