“My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.”

— Robert Jordan

Egwene al'Vere
(15 November 1990)

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American writer 1948–2007

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!"”

Mark Jason Dominus (1969) American computer programmer

Boring answers to Powell's questions, Dominus, Mark Jason, October 19, 2006, 2006-11-30 http://blog.plover.com/book/Powells.html,

“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance.
He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”

Herbert N. Casson (1869–1951) Canadian journalist and writer

Herbert N. Casson in: Sheet Metal Workers' International Association (1928) Sheet Metal Workers Journal p. 22
1920s-1940s

“My mother, a woman, told me this, and I’ll tell you, mijo, that you will learn who you are and who you aren’t in the next four or five years, because not to learn who you are and who you aren’t in the next few years, my mother said, is to be missing the most important part of your whole life.”

Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer

Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir (2008)

“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.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

“"[…] is being "whipped like a government mule!" (usually said when someone is taking a beating)”

Jim Ross (1952) American professional wrestling commentator, professional wrestling referee, and restaurateur

Commentary Quotes

“I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.”

Anthony Weiner (1964) American politician

Stated on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in response to a question on whether he would had defeated New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg if he had run in the 2009 mayoral election (February 4, 2010)

“Stiffy was one of those girls who enjoy in equal quantities the gall of an army mule and the calm insouciance of a fish on a slab of ice.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“He beat him like a rented mule.”

Mike Lange (1948) Canadian sportscaster

Quoted in Bob Smizik, Tales from the Pittsburgh Penguins (2006). Lange credited a stockbroker with saying the phrase to him when Lange asked him how his day was.
Noted as a phrase closely associated with Lange, as quoted in Shelly Anderson, "Lange signs 1-year Penguins radio deal", http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07208/804828-61.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2007-07-27)

“My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.”

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