Quotes by Oxen In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. Jules Renard oxen toil writing 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 oxen commodity standards Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Ovid oxen horse time Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle of Hebrew law included the needs of the livestock (Exod. 23:12). After seven years of planting and harvesting, the land itself needed "a year of complete rest" (Lev. 25:5). Even the soil of the vineyards was not to be overtaxed by planting other crops between the rows (Deut. 22:9). The oxen that trod out the grain were not to be muzzled so that they could eat while they worked (Deut. 25:4). And so on. Richard J. Foster oxen compassion animal Hither rolls the storm of heat; Ralph Waldo Emerson oxen sea giving Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. Samuel Johnson oxen fats should 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 Sonya Sones oxen tired taken Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so. Thomas Hardy oxen lonely loneliness Too slow, the wagons of years, Vladimir Mayakovsky oxen heart years 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 oxen god time And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind. William Butler Yeats oxen behinds time Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. William Winwood Reade oxen compassion sheep If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image. Xenophanes oxen horse atheism «12
