Oxen Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Commodity, Standards, Mediums

  Karl Marx (1973). "Grundrisse: Fundamentos de la crítica de la economía política", Vintage Books EE.UU.

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• 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.

  Xenophanes

  Art, Horse, Eye

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• Beauty drawes more then oxen.

  George Herbert

  Belleza

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.349

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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.

  Lucrecio

  Trabajo, Medio, Hombres

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• In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

  Jules Renard

  Writing, Toil, Genius

  Jules Renard (1964). "El diario de Jules Renard"

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• 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.

  Horace

  Land, Yoke, Necks

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• Sabe que todas las cosas son así: Un espejismo, un castillo de nubes, Un sueño, una aparición, Sin esencia, pero con cualidades que se pueden ver. Sabe que todas las cosas son así: Como la luna en un cielo brillante En algún lago claro reflejada, Aunque a ese lago la luna nunca se ha movido. Sabe que todas las cosas son así: Como un eco que deriva De música, sonidos y llanto, Aunque en ese eco no hay melodía. Sabe que todas las cosas son así: Como un mago hace ilusiones De caballos, bueyes, carros y otras cosas, Nada es como parece.

  Buda Gautama

  Dream, Buddhist, Horse

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• Nuestras panaceas curan pocas enfermedades, nuestros hospitales generales son privados y exclusivos. Debemos establecer otra Hygeia de la que ahora se venera. ¿Acaso los curanderos no prescriben pequeñas dosis para los niños, mayores para los adultos y aún mayores para bueyes y caballos? Recordemos que debemos prescribir para el globo mismo.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Caballo, Niños, Salud

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). "Los ensayos de Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde", p.164, Macmillan

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• El aire era frío para los pulmones, la larga hierba goteaba húmeda y las hierbas que la cubrían desprendían su especiado aroma astringente. Dentro de poco, las cigarras empezarían a cantar por todas partes. La hierba era yo, y el aire, las lejanas montañas invisibles eran yo, los cansados bueyes eran yo. Respiraba con el ligero viento nocturno en los espinos.

  Isak Dinesen

  Cansado, Noche, Hierba Larga

  Isak Dinesen (1938). "Memorias de África"

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

  William Winwood Reade

  Compassion, Sheep, Looks

  William Winwood Reade (1892). "El martirio del hombre"

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• 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

  Taken, Tired, Games

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• In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen, Campbell argued that while evolution (or Development) might be observable in the fossil record, it was merely evidence of God's purpose. God, for example, would cause horses and oxen to evolve in time to meet human needs. The brightly colored plumage of birds, Campbell went on, were simply God's decorations of nature for humanity's enjoyment.

  Jonathan Clements

  Horse, Book, Law

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• I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

  Jay Asher

  Coffee, Book, Ink

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.91, Penguin

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• When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Yoke, Praise

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.234

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• 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

  Solitario, Soledad, Años

  Thomas Hardy (2009). “Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Animal, Compassion, Years

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• Si un buey no podía hacer el trabajo, no intentaban criar un buey más grande, sino que utilizaban dos bueyes. Cuando necesitamos mayor potencia informática, la respuesta no es conseguir un ordenador más grande, sino... construir sistemas de ordenadores y hacerlos funcionar en paralelo.

  Grace Hopper

  Jobs, Two, Trying

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• Todos estamos de acuerdo en que las chicas no deben casarse por dinero. Una dama que puede venderse por un título o una propiedad, por una renta o un conjunto de diamantes familiares, se trata a sí misma como un granjero trata a sus ovejas y bueyes; apenas hace más de sí misma, de su propio ser interior, en el que están comprendidas una mente y un alma, que la pobre desgraciada de su propio sexo que se gana el pan en el estado más bajo de degradación.

  Anthony Trollope

  Matrimonio, Chica, Dinero

  Anthony Trollope (2015). "Framley Parsonage", p.247, Booklassic

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• Es cierto, estos católicos romanos, con curas y todo, me impresionan como un pueblo que se ha quedado muy atrás en el significado de sus símbolos. Es como si un buey se hubiera extraviado en una iglesia y estuviera tratando de recordar. Sin embargo, son capaces de reverencia; pero nosotros los yanquis somos un pueblo en el que este sentimiento casi se ha extinguido, y en este sentido no podemos recordar ni siquiera como bueyes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Yankees, People, Catholic

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

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Giving, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.182, Delphi Classics

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• En Nochebuena vi un establo, bajo y muy desnudo, Un niño pequeño en un pesebre. Los bueyes lo conocían, lo tenían a su cuidado, Para los hombres era un extraño, La seguridad del mundo yacía allí, Y el peligro del mundo.

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Niños, Mentir, Hombres

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• Y halló en el templo a los que vendían bueyes, ovejas y palomas, y a los cambistas sentados: Y haciendo un azote de cuerdas pequeñas, los echó a todos del templo, y a las ovejas y a los bueyes; y derramó el dinero de los cambistas, y volcó las mesas; y dijo a los que vendían palomas: Quitad esto de aquí; no hagáis de la casa de mi Padre una casa de mercado.

  Juan Apóstol

  Jesus, Father, Sheep

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• It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Dog, Horse, Rain

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

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• Téngase en cuenta que esto aparece en el mismo libro de la Biblia que aprueba la pena de muerte para un niño que maldiga a sus padres, los propietarios de bueyes que hieran a alguien por negligencia del propietario, cualquiera que trabaje o encienda fuego en domingo y cualquiera que tenga relaciones sexuales con un animal.

  Jim Butcher

  Sexo, Niños, Libro

  Jim Butcher (2008). "Noche blanca: A Novel of the Dresden Files", p.23, Penguin

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