Quotes About Mule

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

In Tristram Shandy there is a passage which describes how two nuns, believing that the only way to shift an obstinate mule was to say "bugger," are hampered by the knowledge that to utter such a word was most sinful. They split it up between them. Neither syllable on its own could possibly be sinful, so one shouts "bou, bou, bou" and the other "ger, ger, ger.

Madame Candelaria contó muchos años después que Santa Anna, antes de iniciarse el cerco, entró en San Antonio; iba montado en una mula y fue haciendo pequeños planos de la disposición de la ciudad.

Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalomís head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

“Take my servants with you,” said the king. “Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.

And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the kingís mule.