Donkey Quotes - Page 2

• There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

  Martial

  Dignity, Glory

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• Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Green

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.159, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Humble, Men

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• Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

  Walter Scott

  Men, May, Cattle

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• My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is teaching (so I can afford to write), travel to be planned and executed. There are dozens of emails daily, gardening, lots of dishes (where do all these dishes come from?), daily family emergencies, and, of course, the petting of the donkeys. The smell of donkeys is heavenly, and their he-honking is the sweetest music. I feel calm just thinking about them.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Teaching, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

  Erich Honecker

  Eugenics, Progress, Able

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• The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Legs, Treats, Mice

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

  Emma Thompson

  Children, Animal, Thinking

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• The FBI announced today that they are now looking for Osama bin Laden's financial adviser. You think this guy is in demand. How good can he be? his top client is living in a cave and driving a donkey. It doesn't sound like he is getting the best return on his investments to me.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Guy, Sound

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• The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

  Robert Novak

  Running, Party, Clothes

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• When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

  Mitt Romney

  Tails, Blame, Pins

  "Mitt Romney Defends The Bush Record" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Practice, Lions, Glorify

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• Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But this isn’t a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—” “Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.

  Rick Riordan

  Lovely, Sound, Burning

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.76, Penguin UK

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• I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Lions

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• The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.

  Rumi

  Running, Jesus, Past

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• It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.

  Suzy Kassem

  Elephants, Doe, Lions

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• As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a donkey cart piled high with new potatoes. Tessa screamed. Will reached past her and yanked the curtain shut. "It's better if you don't look," he told her pleasantly. "He's going to kill someone. Or get us killed." "No, he won't. Thomas is an excellent driver." Tessa glared at him. "Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Past, Looks

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• It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

  Will Forte

  Numbers, Score, Certain

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• Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

  A. A. Milne

  Water, Sides, Said

  Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 6

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• One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

  David Lloyd George

  Justice, Waiting, Political

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• The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.

  John Whitmore

  People, Sticks, Persuasive

  John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.106, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Waste, Talent, Given

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.36, Penguin

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• There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.

  Mike Matusow

  Tables, Tournaments

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• If you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey.

  Charles Nqakula

  Soccer, Car, Crime

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• I dont like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from Shrek about me.

  Stephen Mangan

  Mind, Watches, Littles

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