"Hail, holy Ass!" the quiring angels sing;"Priest of Unreason, and of Discords King!"Great co-Creator, let Thy glory shine:God made all else, the Mule, the Mule is thine!-- G.J.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Now I have become a foolBecause I listened to the muleHow can I change when my mind isa friend of a Lucifer hid in the groundJust another slave for the mule—Deep Purple, "The Mule"
I don't think it's nice you laughing. You see my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughing at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it...
—Joe, A Fistful of Dollars (1963)
I did things I wouldn't force on a mule, and that includes things I forced on a mule.
—Jerri Blank, Strangers with Candy
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
—William Faulkner
Why association with the mule should thus demoralize a man, has always been a puzzle to me, for while the mule, as Col. Ingersoll has remarked, is an animal without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity, he is still not a coward by any means. It is beyond dispute that a full-grown and active lioness once attacked a mule in the grounds of the Cincinnati Zoological Garden, and was ignominiously beaten, receiving injuries from which she died shortly afterward.
—John McElroy, Andersonville, 1879
...impossible some grata or sectoral somechest it's coleus on chopin and chow it's cetus on philip be birefringent on mule try.
—anonymous, Erik's spam folder, 08 January 2006