Quotes About Mule

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?

You feel safe now that Seldon will speak, and you move against us. A month ago you were soft and yielding, when our ships defeated the Mule at Terel. I might remind you, sir, that it is the Foundation Fleet that has been defeated in open battle five times, and that the ships of the Independent Trading Worlds have won your victories for you.

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

I don't envy the mule his labyrinthine inlets, those indispensable side-intelligencers.

Fo' de Lawd!' he say, 'dat mule drunk! he be'n drinkin' de wine.' En sho' 'nuff, de mule had pas' right by de tub er fraish grape-juice en push' de kiver off'n de bairl, en drunk two er th'ee gallon er de wine w'at had been stan'in' long ernough fer ter begin ter git sha'p.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

If there is a specialty cocktail I enjoy, it's the Moscow mule.

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.

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?

He was stubborn as a mule, clever as a monkey, and nimble as a hare.

Prior Aymer, who pushed his mule betwixt his companion and

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

Smonk ignored the mule for the whore it was, off with the first little shit to put ass to it.

Mr. Furrow jerked a thumb toward the mule in the back of the barn. "Rabbit'll kill anything comes near his carrot if he hasn't done with it. And he'll kick you if you make him go too fast in the field. I'd whip him, but he's so old a whipping might kill him, and he's our last and only mule. So we just keep away from his carrot and we keep it slow. That's the rules with Rabbit.

I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

Mao's conviction, "Give me a path wide enough to move a mule and I will move an army.

Dat mule is liable tuh be dead befo' de week is out. You won't git no work outa him. Didn't buy 'im fuh no work. I god, Ah bought dat varmint tuh let 'im rest. You didn't have gumption enough tuh do it. A respectful silence fell on the place. Sam looked at Joe and said, Dat's a new idea 'bout varmints, Mayor Starks. But Ah laks it mah ownself. It's uh noble thing you done. Everybody agreed with that.

The vinyl cushioned seat on his chair let out a long windy sigh like a mule when its packs are unloaded.

Of all wildlife, mule deer fawns are the safest newborns, 'cause during their entire first year, they don't produce a scent by which a predator might find them.

THE MULE DISLIKES YOU

If conditions there are half as bad as I think they are," his father had told him, while overseeing the loading of the mule, "the commander would lend you the services of half a battalion in exchange for this, let alone a surgeon.

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.