Beauty draws more than oxen. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who greases his wheels helps his oxen. [ Proverb ]

You must plough with such oxen as you have. [ Proverb ]

He builds cages fit for oxen to keep birds in. [ Proverb ]

Nature draws with greater force than seven oxen. [ German Proverb ]

One hair of a woman draws more than a team of oxen. [ Proverb ]

He that sows in the highway tires his oxen, and loses his corn. [ Proverb ]

Happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the primitive race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending. [ Horace ]