“The old ox plows a straight furrow”
English Proverb
“The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.”
Bible
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, / The furrow followed free; / We were the first that ever burst / Into that silent sea.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“On a half-reapèd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers.”
John Keats
“Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.”
“Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.”
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
Lao Tzu
