“Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?”

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!

Even as a cow she was lovely.