Donkey Quotes

• You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

  Eddie Murphy

  Funny, Life, Might

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• If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

  George Herbert

  Liberty, Libertarian, Ifs

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• Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Animal, Misunderstood, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

  Al Sharpton

  Running, Party, Believe

  Interview with Robert Novak, January 2003.

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• A unicorn is a donkey from the future

  Joe Rogan

  Unicorn

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• Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

  Winston Churchill

  Sticks, Hills, Nazi

  Wolfgang Mieder, Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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• The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

  A. A. Milne

  Depression, Thinking, Feet

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.38, Egmont UK

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• Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Wisdom, Book, Load

  Zora Neale Hurston (1939). “Moses: Man of the Mountain”

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• Never take advice from a donkey.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Advice, Power Of One

  "Fictional character: Doc". "The Power of One", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

  Martial

  Glory

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mind, Argument

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.

  Erich Ludendorff

  Leadership, Lions

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• It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

  Jim Hightower

  Winning, Race, Elephants

  Jim Hightower (2004). “Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back”, p.119, Penguin

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• The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.

  Victoria Moran

  Horse, Strong, Animal

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• If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Self, Two, People

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• All the donkeys I knew had small ears!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ears

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• Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

  George Orwell

  Long, Long Time

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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• Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.

  Vera Nazarian

  Nice, Giving, Matter

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• Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

  Russell Green

  Horse, Waiting, Heaven

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• There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Successful, Wealth

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• My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Smart, People, Cautiousness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Rose, Beautiful Rose

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• I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

  Katherine Dunn

  Mother, Healing, Eye

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• Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Vanity, Deer, Fence

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

  Thomas Merton

  Christmas, Shepherds, Jerusalem

  "Evangelical Sunday School Lesson Commentary 2013-2014". Book by Lance Colkmire, p. 164, January 5, 2012.

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