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My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three. -- Mark E. Smith
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' -- Terry Pratchett
Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule? -- Jack Nicholson
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
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
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. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
[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
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres. -- Charles Evers
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed. -- Barry Sternlicht
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. -- Hank Williams
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut. -- Mika
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
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
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
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
I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it. -- John Hunter
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
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
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
I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. -- George Strait
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
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. -- Aristotle
Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Be mule-like stubborn about your happy -- TemitOpe Ibrahim
I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule. -- Anthony Weiner
There's no education in the second kick of a mule -- Sam Rayburn
Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule. -- Bob Dylan
I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself. -- Wayne White
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man! -- Robert Jordan
There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule. -- Mark Twain
God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent. -- Albert Einstein
She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin. -- Will Rogers
Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. -- Marcus Aurelius
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 will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. -- William Faulkner
Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife. -- Luc Sante
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool -- E. W. Howe
I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule. -- Shannon Hale
Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room. -- Jane Hirshfield
Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight. -- Carl Froch
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working. -- Harry S. Truman
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
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
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
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
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
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. -- Mark Twain
I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music. -- Ketch Secor
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
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
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
We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here. -- Alice Walker
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

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