Ass Quotes
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My name is Reggie. I'm about kickin' ass, I'm about takin' names, and we're about makin' games.
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More Ass Quotes
If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
Charles Bukowski— Interview with Robert Wennersten (1974)
The man, who laugh'd but once to see an ass Mumbling to make the cross-grain'd thistles pass, Might laugh again to see a jury chaw The prickles of unpalatable law.
— Drydeti, The Medal.
If thou wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee; if thou wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee, when, peradventure, thou wert accused by the ass...
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, scene iii.
He that is a traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, atonguelikethetail ofa dog toflatterall, themouthof a hog to eat all what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing; and if this be not the highest step of thraldom, there is no liberty or freedom.
thomas nashe— 1594 The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton.
The light is braying like an ass.
— 1923 Fa c° ade,'Long Steel Grass'.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else.But the fact is, you got to give 'em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
— 1985 Pa.The Color Purple.
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
Miguel de Cervantes— Ch. 71. (Part II (1615))
I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
George Chapman— Revenge for Honour (published posthumously, 1654), Act iii, scene 2. Although this was credited to Chapman, scholars have rejected the attribution; the play may have been written by Henry Glapthorne.
When I find out who stole it I'll take blood, ass and all!
patsy cline— In a letter to a friend about having her mink coat stolen at her record company's party
— Attributed from Remembering Patsy (1993 documentary film)
Silly ass. The land would be much more valuable today.
Princess Margaret— On being told that George III had given the Crown lands to Parliament in 1761 in return for a fixed allowance. As quoted in Andrew Duncan, The Reality of Monarchy, p. 181
"He's kicking such major ass that it's insane!"
megan mullally— On Tony Bennett
I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear.One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.
christopher vokes— Italy, p. 182
Get away from me fat man, or I'll spork your ass.
— TV show The Critic
Freud 's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.
ludwig wittgenstein— p. 55e (Culture and Value (1980))
Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?”
Alain de Botton— p. 112 (Status Anxiety (2004))
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
george eliot— Romola (1863), Book III, Chapter XVII
I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.
j. michael straczynski— J. Michael Straczynski (1995-11-10). "Re: B5 rips off Trek Again! (T". rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5. (Google Groups). Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
He made his point well; but he made it too often. And an attack of that kind, personal and savage in its nature, loses its effect when it is evident that the words have been prepared. A good deal may be done in dispute by calling a man an ass or a knave, but the resolve to use the words should have been made only at the moment, and they should come hot from the heart.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 33 (Phineas Redux (1874))
It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel’s ass.
robert charles wilson— p. 204 (Spin (2005))
All I gotta say about Elian is, thank God he's Cuban. 'Cause if he had been Haitian, you'd have never heard about his ass. If Elian Gonzalez was Elian Mumoombo from Haiti, they'd have pushed that little rubber tube back into the water. "Sorry, fella. All full."
— Dave Chappelle, Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly (2000).
Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me, For making him egregiously an ass.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 1, line 317.
Patience! said the wolf to the ass.
— As quoted in Henry G. Bohn, A polyglot of foreign proverbs, (1857)
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
Miguel de Cervantes— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Chapter LVII.
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
Kurt (Donald) Cobain— Kurt Cobain, quoted in: Noel Botham (2007) The Best Book of Useless Information Ever, p. 33
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
— 23:4 (KJV)
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy ass weights.
ronnie coleman— Ronnie Coleman, Ronnie Coleman: The Unbelievable! (2005) (DVD)
The Devil is an ass , I do acknowledge it.
Ben Jonson— "Pug"; Act IV, scene 4.
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.
james kenneth stephen— To R. K.
Kiss. My. ass.
— Who: Gunnery Sergeant Reynolds
— Notes: Said while he is being interrogated by Brutes. Not necessarily the character's last words, as he can be saved provided the player is quick enough.
