You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can…

To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.

— Hank Williams

“Look, you lost a tooth. Congratulations. Enjoy looking like a hillbilly. Here’s a dollar,”

— Jim Gaffigan

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing…

— Theodore Bikel

I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!

— Hank Williams

“I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him.…

— Clint Eastwood

“People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they…

— Will Advise

I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm…

— John Hunter

Where's Amy?" Ian put in. "Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either…

— Gordon Korman

The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

— Cleveland Amory

They say, when you die, and after burial, you come like an insect or animal. I hear some people com back as a mule;…

— Laurel Aitken

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

— E. W. Howe

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

— Charles Evers

“I’m more like a...like a mule.” “A mule?” he repeated slowly, brows furrowing. “Yeah, a mule. You know, half horse, half donkey—” “I know…

— Anonymous

My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said…

— Robert Jordan

She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.

— Will Rogers