Donkey Quotes - Page 3

• Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jesus, Sorry, Brain

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• I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Giants

  Song: Bo' Fo' Sho', Album: Bo Fo Sho

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• A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Horse, Dutch

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• A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.

  Gilbert Murray

  Horse, Real, Men

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• Christ was born in a manger, laying down amongst donkeys ang goats. He was given gifts of incense and perfume. No kidding.

  Dana Gould

  Goats, Incense, Laying Down

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• If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Women, Fame, Dies

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.570, Book House

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• The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

  David Edward Kirk

  Kings, Theatre, Riding

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• Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

  Harold Pinter

  Years, Drains, Rationality

  Harold Pinter (1994). “Moonlight”, p.5, Grove Press

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• Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

  Idries Shah

  Wise, Book, Ass

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.81, Octagon Press Ltd

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• It was fun to blow off a Porsche with a 3900 donkey [the 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang].

  Carroll Shelby

  Fun, Blow, Porsche

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• It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of them ride a finish. Apart from a half-dozen, they look like coster boys sitting on top of donkeys' behinds, bashing about with shillelaghs.

  Jack Leach

  Boys, Race, Majority

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• Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare was innocently grazing when the ill-bred seducer had his way with her. Now it appears the mare has conceived, and a feud is raging between Caird, who demands financial compensation, and Mawdsley, who insists that had the pasture fencing been in better repair, the clandestine meeting would never have occurred. Worse still, it has been suggested that the mare is a shameless lightskirt and did not try nearly hard enough to preserve her virtue.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Trying, Feuds, Demand

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

  Mick McCarthy

  Football, Sick, Feelings

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• It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey.

  Rick Riordan

  My Best Friend, Matter

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• Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Blue, University Degrees, Games

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• There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

  Karl Marx

  People, World, Looks

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• Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.

  Andy Zaltzman

  Boxes, Caged

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• Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

  Frederick Marryat

  Horse, Distance, Pride

  Frederick Marryat (1897*). “Works of Captain Marryat: With Illustrations”

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• A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

  Idries Shah

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Idries Shah (1983). “The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin”, p.43, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, Play, Nativity

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• Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Bears, Philosopher

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• In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.

  Geri Halliwell

  School, Play, Littles

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• The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.

  William Dean Howells

  Running, Tired, Science

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• Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in your circle remind you of stable animals: grazing like sheep, stubborn like donkeys, and that cow in the corner looks a lot like the fellow next door. You, like Joseph, knocked on the innkeeper's door. But you were too late. Or too old, sick, dull, damaged, poor, or peculiar. You know the sound of a slamming door.

  Max Lucado

  Animal, Sheep, Doors

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.

  Chad Harbach

  Running, Reality, Differences

  Source: therumpus.net

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