Mules Quotes

• A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

  William Faulkner

  Patience, Years, Privilege

  William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.290, Vintage

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• 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

  Horse, Animal, Pet

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pride, Ancestry, Posterity

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• In the world of mules there are no rules.

  Ogden Nash

  Horse, World

  Ogden Nash, Étienne Delessert (1987). “Ogden Nash's zoo”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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• There's no education in the second kick of a mule

  Sam Rayburn

  Kicks

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• 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

  Mother, Men, Brain

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.510, Macmillan

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• Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Vegetables, Fuel

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4619, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

  Mark Twain

  Kicks

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• She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.

  Will Rogers

  Sarcastic, Ugly

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• 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

  Mind, Sticks, Problem

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• Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.

  Carl Froch

  Fighting, Needs, Swerve

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• 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.

  War, Appreciate, Southern

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• Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Educational, Thinking, Motto

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• I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

  Shannon Hale

  Stubborn, Persist, Know How

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.296, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

  Tahir Shah

  Giving, Entourage, Packs

  Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.242, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Government, Want, Way

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Voice of the People”, p.213, The Floating Press

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• In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  Tina Turner

  Animal, Tennessee, Wagons

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• 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

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.107, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  Sweet, Naps, Sweat

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Infobase Publishing

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• 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

  Life, Real, Learning

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• The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of scotch or rye. The cow drinks water by the ton And at eighteen is mostly done. The dog at fifteen cashes in Without the aid of rum or gin. The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive three-score years and ten. And some of us, though mighty few Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two.

  Charles Gavan Duffy

  Dog, Horse, Wine

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• God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Scent, Stubbornness

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Morning, Men, Waiting

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• If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Army, Civil War, Ifs

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• 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

  Friday, Country, Children

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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