George Herbert
Poet
"If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him."
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Donkey
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!"
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"I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys."
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"It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey."
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