mule quotes

  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 32:8^9.

It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatisman unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Coningsby, bk.3, ch.5.

What that Sicilian mule was to me, I have been to the Queen.

-W(illiam) E(wart) Gladstone
  Memorandum on his relationship with Queen Victoria, 20 Mar.

   You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

- (Hiram) Hank Williams
Quoted in Rolling Stone,1969.