painting

Cattle

painting by Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt

painting by Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt

Notable quotes

“Bitch, I'm a cow. I'm not a cat, I don't say meow. Bitch, I'm a cow, bitch, I'm a cow. Bitch, I'm a cow, bitch, I'm a cow: I go moo!”
— Doja Cat, "Mooo!", Amala (2018), Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records
“A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.”
— Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1772)
“His knowledge of country lore was a little hazy, but he felt fairly sure that if the cows lay down, it meant rain. If they were standing it would probably be fine. These cows were taking it in turns to execute slow and solemn somersaults; and Tyler wondered what it presaged for the weather.”
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“If you want to own cows you must sleep in the fields with them.”
— Rwandan proverb, as quoted in Paul Rusesabagina, An Ordinary Man (2006), ch. 10
“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.”
— Isaiah 1:3 (KJV)
“You should not move the oxen from their places!”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection II, 3rd millennium BCE, at ETCSL

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.