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“He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.”

Said Loses Adventure Horse Adventurous Solomon Mules

Author:Francois Rabelais

“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.'”

Want Firsts Said Asks Sports Race Car Horse I Want You Mules Sports Cars Mustang Race Horses

Author:Carroll Shelby

“It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.”

Should Different Earth Grows Tree Dog Strange Grew Rain Rivers Horse Branches Lakes Different Place Strange Things Mules Magnolias Oxen

Book:The Yearling

Source: The Yearling

“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.”

Mother Father Brother Horse Favors Donkey Mules

Book:Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author

Source: Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author

“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.”

Thinking Stills Modern Car Built Horse Originals Abandoned Engineering Framework Carts Carriages Mules Modern Marriage

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.”

Made Economy Progress Car Horse Sail Sailing Rapids Mules Locomotives

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.”

Ifs Men Dies Dog Kings Approach Spring Horse Punishment Priests Pigs Intercourse Mules

Author:Orson Scott Card

“Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.”

People Should Art Culture Walks Holy Treats Horse Parks Halls Museums Concerts Pigs Bedroom Automobile Bicycle Assembly Motorcycle Cathedrals National Parks Mules Deference Holy Places

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“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.”

Persons Said Matter Shows Inspiration Would Be Horse They Said Mules

Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.”

Said Journey Horse Faster Agreement Traits Mules

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.”

Thinking Littles Said Used Waiting Pure Horse Prize Racing Boots Pipe Goats Understand Me Mules Mares

Author:Robert Jordan

“When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really ALL THEM. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the KITE – it's the AIR.”

People Needs Trying Believe Stories Air Figures Like You Horse Tragic Gifted Cocky Kites Delusional Mules You Re The Best

Author:Pharrell Williams

“Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.”

Want Humans Shows Behinds Wife Wind Horse Blow My Wife Cows Showing Off Mules Panties Horse Show

Author:Muhammad Ali