Top 100 Quotes About Mule
#1. ...A mule kicked him in the head." She paused, and then said, "I always wondered if he provoked it. Deliberately."
Radzin snorted. "Suicide by mule?"
"Everyone knew that animal had a temper."
"There would be a dozen better ways to do it.
Helene Wecker
#2. A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him.
M.C. Scott
#3. Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?
Jack Nicholson
#4. 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
#5. God, you're so fucking stubborn. You're like a menopausal pissed-off mule!
Emma Chase
#6. WHY IS MY BATH COLD? Because I, purchaser of sadist shoes, needed to soak after wearing cheese graters on my feet yesterday and then traveling and walking and sitting through meetings and touring facilities and impersonating a pack mule today. 'Twas not meant to be.
Qwen Salsbury
#7. Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.
Luc Sante
#8. 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
#9. The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
Clifford Geertz
#10. I've been trying to get Mr. Finchem to lengthen 5 and 7 and 14 and 18 - and he's being a mule,
Pete Dye
#11. I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#12. It's stupid to be that way, so easily hurt; it's better to be like a plank of wood, an emotional mule. It's best not to feel, ... best to have your nerve endings cauterized.
Sonya Hartnett
#13. I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.
Shannon Hale
#14. I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
Mika.
#15. The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the churchyard-Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum.
Harper Lee
#16. There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
Mark Twain
#17. Don't push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county'd be easier to live with.
Harper Lee
#18. There's no education in the second kick of a mule
Sam Rayburn
#19. As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
Barry Sternlicht
#20. Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.
LaTanya Richardson
#21. -Cheap? I could have bought a whole pig
with that coin jester.
-Exactly my Lord. And while some may eat a mule, no one can ride a pig.
Angelo Tsanatelis
#22. My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
Mark E. Smith
#23. Discovery is so important, we won't take a project at Mule if a client won't do it. Research isn't an optional phase of design; it's the keystone under which everything else rests.
Anonymous
#24. Nod house turned into shout
house. In the shout house memory
said shut up. It said silence,
misery said amen, the mule's
head
meant my stubborn lungs. . .
I stood
imagining I fell back dreaming,
stuck tongue stuck in my jaw
broke
my jaw
Nathaniel Mackey
#25. The Lady of Spring must love you dearly."
"As a teamster loves his mule that carries his baggage," said Cazaril bitterly, "whipping it over the high passes.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#26. Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.
Marcus Aurelius
#27. I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident.
Edward Abbey
#28. One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool
E.W. Howe
#29. Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.
John Piper
#30. What we see of the world is the mind's
Invention and the mind
Though stained by it, becoming
Rivers, sun, mule-dung, flies-
Can instantly shift
A dirty bird in square time
Phillip Whalen
#31. I ran my hand over my face in disbelief. One minute I was thinking about the best way to end it all, and the next minute I was headed for Gulfport on a mule. My guardian angel was definitely working overtime.
Manel Loureiro
#32. Well, the devil's in the alley, mule's in the stall
Say anything you wanna, I have heard it all.
Bob Dylan
#33. I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician - perhaps the greatest slide guitarist who ever lived.
Darin Strauss
#34. It, is best served not by mules but by free men. The purpose of abolishing grades and degrees is not to punish mules or to get rid of them but to provide an environment in which that mule can turn into a free man.
Robert M. Pirsig
#35. Don't come yet, boy! You betta hold onto God's unchanging hand! You betta hold yo mule while you shout!
Quan Millz
#36. He knew Muhammad Iffat was of Turkish descent and stubborn as a mule.
Naguib Mahfouz
#37. 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
#38. He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.
Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,
loses horse and mule.
Francois Rabelais
#39. Bessie, the old gray mule, had two speeds: slow and stop. A stick of dynamite could not have put any more giddy-up in her pace ...
Carolyn Brown
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.
Cleveland Amory
#43. I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.
Marcia Gay Harden
#44. The only problem I see is that you're as stubborn as a mule, but I'm sure I'll find a way to whip that right out of you." "Literally or figuratively?" "That's entirely up to your pain tolerance.
Kira Barker
#45. She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
Will Rogers
#46. She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
Junot Diaz
#47. We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.
Francis Parkman
#48. 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.
#50. The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.
Walter Lippmann
#52. She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free but still got treated like a rented mule.
Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
#53. That was Clay's olive branch to Quinn, and if the sumbitch weren't as stubborn as a mule, he'd take it.
Alex Morgan
#54. 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
#55. I would rather have a mule I can depend upon than a race horse that I can't depend upon.
Malcolm X
#57. [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
#58. Well, there is one - a new one. In this past year or two, there has come word of a strange man whom they call the Mule." "The Mule?" She considered. "Ever hear of him, Torie?
Isaac Asimov
#59. I thought we were going to take a 20-mule team out to the Grand Canyon and get a Bunsen burner and a bow and arrow, and whatever you can catch you cook. And it's gotta be gourmet and it better look good.
The Creators Of Top Chef
#60. When visiting the Grand Canyon, make sure you hike into the canyon. And be careful not to fall or step in mule poop.
McKenna Shay
#61. My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
Tom Waits
#62. Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so it doesn't matter to me.
Katie MacAlister
#63. Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.
Neko Case
#64. Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?
Terry Pratchett
#65. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams
#66. The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.
Mark Helprin
#67. Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.
Francois Rabelais
#68. A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner
#69. I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.
Ron Rash
#70. The mule," he was fond of saying, "is as much smarter than a horse as a raven is smarter than a falcon. Neither a raven nor a mule will go charging into combat just because some human tells him to.
Randall Garrett
#71. A man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue ...
Terry Pratchett
#72. Fran? Frances Hill, you stop that right now! What the devil's got into you? Ada, you should be ashamed! Braying like a mule, you are! And you, Mattie Gokey ... would you like to tell me what could possibly be so funny?
Jennifer Donnelly
#73. I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.
Pinetop Perkins
#74. Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.
Oprah Winfrey
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
Voltaire
#78. Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I've stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could put in my hands in a matter of minutes.
Michael Perry
#82. The terrifying fear of a crash had triggered the fight-or-flight response in the child, making him burn a mule, but only he knew about it - thanks to his tight and reliable underpants.
Pawan Mishra
#83. ... a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, "If you don't whip me, I won't work." He didn't get whipped. He didn't work.
Robert M. Pirsig
#84. Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people want it to go, and, like a balky mule, you can't make it go where it doesn't want to go.
Rosalie Maggio
#85. Low down dirty ornery rotten skunk of a cussed mule-headed soldier! What's he want with my book anyway? And what kind of a way is that to write a congratulations? I am so mad I could walk clear to that fort and take him on single handed.
Nancy E. Turner
#86. 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
#87. My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule.
S.A. Tawks
#89. That's two Appaloosas, two quarter horses and one mule, plus tack. They were ordered by a man called himself Theodore Roosevelt. No chance that would be the president, is there?
Hunter Shea
#90. This was one of those moments when I realized that my emotional baggage, once a few neatly packed pieces, was now like the Joads' truck, stacked high with old clothes, half a rocking chair, a mule, all barely secured with twine.
Amy Cohen
#91. The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#92. Well, long way from home and,
Can't sleep at all.
You know another mule,
Is kickin in your stall.
Willie Dixon
#93. A tree in the middle of a giant rock may grow up if it is stubborn like hell! Sometimes to be successful in life is simply made up of being stubborn as a mule!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. 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
#95. Housecats is smart too. Smarter'n a dog or a mule. Folks thinks they ain't on account of you cain't learn em nothin, but what it is is that they won't learn nothin. They too smart.
Cormac McCarthy
#96. And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
Charles Evers
#97. The story describes an incident during the trial of a black schoolteacher accused of disposing of a mule on which there was a mortgage. A defense witness, who was colored but looked white, took the stand and was being sworn in when the judge told the sheriff the man had been given the wrong Bible.
Isabel Wilkerson
#98. I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.
William Faulkner
#99. You've been through a lot, but you without your emotions, isn't you. Those feelings make you who you are. Why you love so passionately, protect your loved ones so fiercely, and act like a stubborn mule. It's why people are drawn to you, even against their will.
Stacey Marie Brown
#100. Such strength behind these eyes, that your soul glows through. Blinding. Captivating. Torturing. You may be as stubborn as a mule on a cliff side but any man would find the true meaning of foolishness to ever forget these facts.
Stephanie Hudson
