Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 36–37
βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ μέγας βέβηκεν.
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber (5 December 1791), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
Variant: The taste of death is on my tongue, I feel something that is not from this world (Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meiner Zunge, ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Welt ist).
“My tongue, not my pen, is my instrument.”
Conversation with Thomas Jones (7 January 1946), quoted in Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters. 1931-1950 (Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 540.
1940s
James 3:5-6 http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=James&chapter=3&verse=25&t=1, KJV
“The tired ox treads with a firmer step.”
Letter 112
Letters
La gente mangia carne e pensa: "Diventerò forte come un bue".
Dimenticando che il bue mangia erba.
Mangiarsi con gusto un animale è assassinio premeditato a scopo di libidine. Digerirlo, occultamento di cadavere.
Il diluvio universale: acqua passata https://books.google.it/books?hl=it&id=9WIhAQAAIAAJ (Palermo: Novecento, 1993), p. 179.
“I want to show Paris in the carcass of an ox.”
Source: Soutine, Alfred Werner, Harry Abrams, New York, 1985, p. 94; as quoted in Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse, by Stanley Meisler, Publisher: St. Martin's PressPublication, 2015, p. 218
“This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.”
Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: Anne Jackson Fremantle (1962) The Great Ages of Western Philosophy : The Age of Belief : The Medieval Philosophers
Albertus Magnus, in response to other of his students calling Thomas Aquinas a "dumb ox" because of his quietude.
“Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.”
D 103
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)
