Animal Labor Quotes

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

If I was a pig to work with I would never get asked back.

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Work is the province of cattle.

The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.

Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.