"I won't tie up the mule in a horse's place," says the widow.
Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been donkeys.
The father may well be a horse, but it's most likely that the son will be a mule.
He who is a Basque, a good Christian and has two mules, needs nothing more.
Once again, mules and their attendants would give him company. Often he thought he and the mules had no difference. Both carried other's loads.
You can make a mule cross the river but you cant make him drink the water.
A mule who goes in search of a fine set of antlers, will come back with his ears cut off:
When the judge's mule dies, everyone goes to the funeral; when the judge himself dies, no one does.
It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.
A mule that thinks he is a stag discovers his mistake when he comes to leap over the ditch.
... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.
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.
A mule can swim seven different strokes but the moment he sees the water he forgets them all.
I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
In the world of mules There are no rules.
My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
Joe: You see, I understand you men were just playin' around, but the mule, he just doesn't get it. Course, if you were to all apologize... [Men Laugh] Joe: I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets th...
General Custer: A scout has a certain look... Kit Carson, for example. You look like... a muleskinner! Jack Crabb: Uh, General I don't know anything about mules... General Custer: Lieutenant, it's amazing how I can guess the profession of a man just ...
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
They began to come upon chains and packsaddles, singletrees, dead mules, wagons. Saddletrees eaten bare of their rawhide coverings and weathered white as bone, a light chamfering of miceteeth along the edges of the wood. They rode through a region wh...
