My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working. — Harry S. Truman
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. — William Faulkner
Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. — Proverbs
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. — Ambrose Bierce
Whoever plows with a team of donkeys must have patience. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule. — Mark Twain
There's no education in the second kick of a mule — Sam Rayburn
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool — E. W. Howe
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule. — Bob Dylan
In the world of mules there are no rules. — Ogden Nash
Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule? — Jack Nicholson
My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three. — Mark E. Smith
I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule. — Anthony Weiner
Stubborn Mule Quotes
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut. — Mika
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite. — Ken Kesey
God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent. — Albert Einstein
God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind. — Albert Einstein
I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule. — Shannon Hale
I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. — George Strait
Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention. — Norman Schwarzkopf
Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight. — Carl Froch
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. — Philip K. Dick
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.' — Carroll Shelby
We stock up on popcorn and candy like we're crossing the Sierras, don't we? I'll have a couple of soft pretzels, a hot dog, Milk Duds, Snocaps. Is that the largest popcorn you've got there, that bucket? You don't have a barrel or anything like that? Do you have a donkey or a pack mule or anything? - Oh, and a Diet Coke. — Ellen DeGeneres
What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar. — Eugene Field
When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour. — Cardinal Richelieu
I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power. — Mark Rippetoe
Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. — Harper Lee
The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too. — Jon Stewart
Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion. — Carol Plum-Ucci
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle. — Johannes Kepler
If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification. — William Bradford Shockley
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' — Terry Prachett
If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need. — Terry Gilliam
Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe. — Robert Jordan
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. — Ida B. Wells
Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men. — Robert M. Pirsig
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it. — Ellen Glasgow
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world. — Samuel Crompton
Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans. — Muhammad Ali
I'm lucky, because I started action movies at the age of 25. Now I'm 47, and I'm still kicking like a mule, and I'm as flexible as before. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter. — Robert Jordan
Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men. — Harry Anderson
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference. — Herbert Newton Casson
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