#oxen

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

— John le Carre

#cubes #having #into #like #movie

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

#behind #black #broken #feet #god

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

— James Howell

#hair #hundred #more #oxen #pair

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

— Seymoure Cray

#field #oxen #plowing #rather #strong

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

#developers #home #i #into #nothing