Top 100 Quotes About The Donkey
#1. Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.
Arthur Guiterman
#2. 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
#3. I can't move. I'm paralyzed in the middle of the street, like the donkey in that Aesop's fable who couldn't choose between the bales of hay. They'll find me in years to come, still frozen to the spot, clutching my credit card.
Sophie Kinsella
#4. 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
#5. Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
Russell Green
#6. Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story ... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.
Michael Leunig
#7. I take back what I said about the donkey,' Ascanio said. 'She's awesome
Ilona Andrews
#8. Does this have something to do with the donkey and the train thing?" "Hush! Quiet you! We do not speak of such things!
Montana Ash
#9. I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.
Joanna Page
#10. The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it'.
Idries Shah
#11. The donkey would've made for an ass-tastic photo." Tracy pulled her camera from her bag. Lifting her lens toward the balcony of a terracotta home along the alleyway, she captured a shot of rustic blue shutters missing a few louvers. "All
Beverly Preston
#12. Only the donkey knows how weary it feels, all God cares about are humans, and not all humans, because some of them live like donkeys or worse, and God makes no effort to help them.
Jose Saramago
#13. If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion, don't go lookin' in the donkey corral.
Ciji Ware
#14. 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
#15. Safety from what? Who's after me?" "Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a
Rick Riordan
#16. The trick of getting donkeys down from minarets," said the Patrician, as the desert unwound below them, "is always to find that part of the donkey which seriously wishes to get down." The
Terry Pratchett
#17. I like 'fresh fruit flan'," said the donkey. "Three excellent words."
"I don't have one," said Noah immediately before the question could even be asked, and the donkey opened his eyes wide in suprise, and for a moment Noah wondered whether he might even consider eating him.
John Boyne
#18. I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
Tatiana Maslany
#20. 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
#21. River on the ferry, Billy swam beside it, and Harriet remembered the donkey and the donkey cart of her first
Rose Tremain
#22. Come along,' I told the donkey. 'There's a precedent for this.' Manny
Kerry Greenwood
#23. Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass.
Frank Zappa
#24. My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!
Mallory Jansen
#25. There may be a lot of things I'm not good at, thought Vimes, but at least I don't treat the punctuation of a sentence like a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey ...
Terry Pratchett
#26. Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.
Rick Riordan
#27. Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.
Alison Jackson
#29. I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.
Mick McCarthy
#30. It looks like a Grim if you do this," Seamus Finnigan said, with his eyes almost shut, "but it looks more like a donkey from here," he said, leaning to the left.
J.K. Rowling
#31. 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
#32. And the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight.
Mo Yan
#33. Did you know that the chances of being in a plane crash are less than 0.00001 per cent? That means that you're more likely to be killed by a donkey or to naturally conceive identical quadruplets. Bunty
Holly Smale
#34. It is very wrong to make fun of anyone because you make fun of the Lord residing within. It doesn't matter if it is a donkey, but after all, (finally) who is he? He is God.
Dada Bhagwan
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I loved Morocco. It's very exotic and different from anywhere I've ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high Atlas Mountains near Mount Tamadot, when I rode by donkey into a Berber village and drank some mint tea with a Berber family. It was exceptional.
Isla Fisher
#38. When you talk about state of the art, that doesn't mean a damn thing. Think about it. State of the art. "This is the state of the art brush from Winsor-Newton." Yeah, but the state of the art sucks rubber donkey lungs.
Mike Royer
#39. He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact that he accused them of things I'm sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially not Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character.
Patrick Rothfuss
#40. Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
Erich Honecker
#41. 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
#42. Lady Underhill, having said all she had to say, recovered her breath and began to say it again. Frequent iteration was one of her strongest weapons. As her brother Edwin, who was fond of homely imagery, had often observed, she could talk the hind-leg off a donkey. "You
P.G. Wodehouse
#43. 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
#44. When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.
Louis C.K.
#45. It was fun to blow off a Porsche with a 3900 donkey [the 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang].
Carroll Shelby
#46. Although some Jews "traveled by donkey," the Jews of Spain, for the most part, walked out of their country. These refugees were the "scholars, the sons and daughters of families who had served their monarchs . . . shoemakers, tanners, butchers, the old, the pregnant, [and] the young."6
Gloria Golden
#47. subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a horse gone wonky.' Throughout most of the
Elaine Morgan
#48. Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch,
Pay attention to this witch.
A donkey takes you to a knight
Him you conquer in a fight.
Then you wed a princess who
Is even uglier than you.
Ha ha ha and cockadoodle,
The magic words are 'Apple Strudel
William Steig
#49. I once heard a Chicago-area pastor put it this way: we don't need more Americans bowing down to the Democrat donkey or the Republican elephant. We need more Americans bowing down to the Lion of Judah.
Todd Starnes
#50. He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
George Orwell
#51. We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.
Carl Sagan
#52. If you can't see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it's just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.
J.Z. Colby
#53. Mitch stood. "How is this my fault? I'm not the one with the pussy that drains the life from a man!"
"And i'm not the one hung like an overendowed donkey
Shelly Laurenston
#54. SlingBlade: If you EVER speak ill of the McGriddle again I will personally force-feed you one while I fuck you in the butt using the wrapper as a condom and then donkey punch you when the infused syrup nuggets explode in your mouth.
Tucker Max
#55. I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean.
Kim Wright
#56. Jesse is not as charismatic as Ty, but they both fall under the category of people who can tell you to do just about anything, including rimming a dead donkey, and you'd do it.
L.J. Shen
#57. What freedom to be tied up, and still have the capability of ignoring ridiculous, silly conversations.
Sandra Staas
#58. I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.
Michael Gough
#59. I rode out of the stables on top of an eight-foot-tall donkey that looked like she had robbed a Holstein cow and was now wearing the stolen clothes.
Ilona Andrews
#60. Kingslund's dress will be a matching one in silver. They will be absolutely exquisite. Jen would be exquisite. I'd probably look like a donkey at the races. With ribbons on it.
Mark Henwick
#61. Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#62. 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
#64. Israel's journey from Egypt to Canaan is peppered with strange events: the earth swallows a clan, almond blossoms sprout from a rod, and a donkey opens its mouth to argue with a wayward prophet. Who says the Bible is dull?
Preston Sprinkle
#65. If I can find time to play games, it's console gaming. I don't want to be plugged into my phone all the time. I'm waiting for the new Mario Kart to come out, but I've been playing Donkey Kong and Mario 3D World on the Wii U.
Michelle Phan
#66. What the hell is this?" Desandra asked
"This is Cuddles. She's a mammoth donkey."
Derek grinned, leaning on the fence. "Do you have any self-respect left?"
"Nope.
Ilona Andrews
#67. A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.
Ameen Rihani
#68. Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will never do it again?"
"Yes."
"You'd have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold.
Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
#69. My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#70. 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
#71. The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
Shane Claiborne
#72. Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey.
Terry Pratchett
#73. I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey.
Agatha Christie
#74. 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 Kirk
#75. The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.
P.G. Wodehouse
#76. Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.
Harold Pinter
#77. A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. "Uhh, a vampire with-"
"Don't mention the legs!" Tammi snapped. "It's rude to make fun.
Rick Riordan
#78. The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.
Idries Shah
#79. If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
Joel Osteen
#80. In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you're a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you're short wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If you're a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you're a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra.
Chris Rock
#81. A unicorn is a donkey from the future
Joe Rogan
#82. All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.
Michael Chabon
#83. I stepped out of the circle of his arms with reluctance and patted him on his butt. "That'll do, donkey," I said, in my best Scottish accent.
H.D. Gordon
#84. Only the great warriors fall down from their horses; one would not fall who rides a donkey cart.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#85. In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.
Geri Halliwell
#86. 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
#87. Never done anything yourself, have yer? Never performed live to a real audience, have yer?' 'Nor have I fucked a donkey, destabilized a Central American state, or played Dungeons & Dragons,' retorts Cheeseman, 'but I reserve the right to hold opinions on those who do.
David Mitchell
#88. This is indeed a funny country. Yesterday, for example, we were in a cafe which is one of the best in Cairo, and there were, at the same time as ourselves, inside, a donkey shitting, and a gentleman who was pissing in a corner. No one finds that odd; no one says anything.
Gustave Flaubert
#89. There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
Rahman Baba
#90. What's the saying? All is donkey balls in love and war?
-Dan Garrett
Leah Rae Miller
#91. The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.
John Whitmore
#92. I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.
Katherine Dunn
#93. Somewhere near the Alamo, a bugle brayed: either that or McCulloch's men had found some reason to torture a poor, defenseless donkey.
Harry Turtledove
#94. So he can go ride a donkey naked through the desert with snapping turtles attached to his nipples for all I care.
Suzanne Wright
#95. 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
#96. Then, stop worrying so much what the rest of us think; just get on the damned donkey and ride it.
Susanna Kearsley
#97. Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the time I had a donkey and a corkscrew. (Aiden) Donkey and a corkscrew? (Leta) I don't know you well enough to fill you in on those details. (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#98. Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
Andy Zaltzman
#99. There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!
Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley.
Rumi
#100. I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
Al Sharpton
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