Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Cow
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow
I’d rather see than be one.
Gelett Burgess—The Purple Cow.
The Moo-cow-moo’s got a tail like a rope
En it’s ravelled down where it grows,
En it’s just like feeling a piece of soap
All over the moo-cow’s nose.
Edmund Vance Cooke—The Moo-Cow-Moo.
You may rezoloot till the cows come home.
John Hay—Little Breeches. Banty Tim.
A curst cow hath short horns.
Herbert—Jacula Prudentum.
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
Samuel Johnson—Boswell’s Life of Johnson. (1772).
The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might
To eat with apple-tart.
Stevenson—Child’s Garden of Verses. The Cow.
I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
Swift—Polite Conversations. Dialog. 2.
Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread.
Anne Taylor—The Cow.