quotes about Mules
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I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.
-- Anthony WeinerSource : "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, February 04, 2010.
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When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.
-- Cardinal RichelieuSource : 1688 Testament Politique.
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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 -
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 -
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Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
-- Mark E. SmithSource : "This much I know". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.
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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 HelprinSource : Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books
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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
-- Mark Twain -
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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
-- Mika -
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 -
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
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There's no education in the second kick of a mule
-- Sam Rayburn -
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There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
-- Tahir ShahSource : Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.242, Lulu.com
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Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
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In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
-- Tina Turner -
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
-- William FaulknerSource : 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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman