“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?”
Seymore Cray
“So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.”
Bible
“Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.”
John LeCarre
“Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat”
Samuel Johnson
“We've constructed what we consider a micron-scale analog of an ox, ... These are 'micro-oxen,' a micro-scale beast of burden.”
George Whitesides
“He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases; / One sea, and twelve oxen under it.”
“And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.”
