Cows quotes
233 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."
"Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows."
"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful."
""You got beef, bring your cow, I will cattle you""
"Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force."
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"Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more."
"There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows."
"We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows."
"Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country."
"Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team."
"How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire."
"A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all."
"Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns"
"A big blizzard proves there's no global warming in the same way being out of milk proves there's no such thing as cows."
"The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins."
"Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks."
"I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow."
"A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden."
"I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat."
"We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States."
"Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked"
"Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture."
"Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me."
"I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating."
"We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors."
