FROM AN EARTH OX TO YOU
Korean Proverb. Life begins when you are sixty.
Teaching an old person to learn is like asking a cow to climb a tree.(Cantonese)
- THE BLACK OX HAS NOT TROD ON HIS FOOT – RENAISSANCE
- Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
- ITALIAN PROVERB. Moglie e buoi dei paesi tuoi -Choose a wife and an ox from your own town
- A lazy ox is little the better for the goad.
- He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. – Bible, Proverbs (ch. VII, v. 22)
- And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the landWith all the pomp of harvest.
James Thomson, Seasons
The black Oxe hath not trod on his foot. Who would not let this Calf live till he had been an Oxe, That he might have eaten both brambles and thorns, And when he came to his father's years might have worn horns." "Remains concerning Britain"
LYNNE SANDERS-BRAITHWAITE 19 OCTOBER 1949 BORN SYDNEY
PETER KNOX AKA IZZY FOREAL BORN 18 APRIL 1949 CROWN STREET SYDNEY
After the ox was half-skinned, he remembered he
ought to have cut the feet off first.
Unless a man’s arrangements are perfect before he com-
mences an undertaking, he may find he will not
succeed.
PATHAN.
Whoever shall find the treasure hidden in Ringmore Down
shall plough with a golden ploughshare and yoke his oxen
with golden cross-sticks. — R. J. King, N., I., ii. 513.
The downs near Sutton, Banstead and Epsom produce
delicate small sheep, and the rich meadows about
Carshalton are remarkable for fattening oxen. Epsom
was once famous for its mineral waters, and the Wells
were greatly resorted to as a place of amusement,
particularly by ladies of easy virtue. Ewell is a poor
village, about a mile from Epsom, and is said to have
harboured a number of the inferior sharpers and other
idle retainers to the Wells, lodgings being there cheaper
than at Epsom. — G.
Walton-on-Thames.
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SUSSEX.
Sussex full of mire.
Sowseks ful of dyrt and my re. — Rawl. MS.
The oxen, swine, and women are all long-legged, from the difficulty
of pulling their ankles out of the mire. — Dr. John Burton,
Iter Sussexicnse, S.A.C., viii. 257.
“Lean’s collectanea”
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A shower in July when the corn begins to fill
is worth a plough of oxen and all belongs theretill. — K.