Donkey – Quotes

I thought you’d rather

I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion. Ernest Shackleton

Leadership: Lions led by

Leadership: Lions led by donkeys. Erich Ludendorff

Neither an ox nor

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism. Erich Honecker

There is that thing

There is that thing about not working with animals and children – I don’t think that’s true. Although you should never work with donkeys. Emma Thompson

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible. … Read more

We stock up on

We stock up on popcorn and candy like we’re crossing the Sierras, don’t we? I’ll have a couple of soft pretzels, a hot dog, Milk Duds, Snocaps. Is that the largest popcorn you’ve got there, that bucket? You don’t have a barrel or anything like that? Do you have a donkey or a pack mule … Read more

You might have seen

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain’t never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha! Eddie Murphy

We did some camera

We did some camera tests blacking it out, we made a prosthetic with a gap in it, but that made me look like a donkey, so I vetoed that right away. And then I just finally called my dentist and said, ‘You know, I’ve had this implant for 20 years. What’s it involve in taking … Read more

Can an ass be

Can an ass be tragic?–To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity is a confounded

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers. Frederick Marryat