Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.
Proverb
Related
A stupid mule is still smarter than a good horse or a bad man.
URSULA VERNON We grew up with horses and mules, and we got into tractors.
LEONARD LUSSIER Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
JOHN MOODY Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. . -...
ANCIENT PROVERB Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
FACUNDO PIERES The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB Once again, mules and their attendants would give him company. Often he thought he and the mules had...
MAHESH POUDYAL Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
JOAN D. VINGE Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.
JAMES DEE RICHARDSON In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
TINA TURNER Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish.
It makes sense to revere the S...
CARL SAGAN Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and tempta...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL In the world of mules there are no rules.
OGDEN NASH They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them
DANISH PROVERB Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
4-H is a good place for youth that are interested in horses to come be around other youth who are in...
JULIA HINZ But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work t...
XENOPHANES Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
DAVID MITCHELL I've always ridden horses.
KATIE PRICE We do not brag about ancestors that were not great
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA People are frantically calling and telling us their cat is on the third floor of an apartment in New...
WAYNE PACELLE I am very sorry for those people who lost their horses here. We are aware that we are very much in t...
EDWARD GILLESPIE Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the anim...
NORMAN BORLAUG Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS It's really beautiful. Owners can walk up to their horses without getting muddy, and we're not bunch...
DAVE MCSHANE Oh well, it's right that the members of these old families should stick together nowadays. After all...
BILLY HUGHES Son, employees are like mules. Some you stand in front of and coax them along with a carrot. Some yo...
ANONYMOUS We should never forget that all of our ancestors were once strangers here.
MICHAEL CRESPI If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the work...
XENOPHANES Those who chant are sanctified. All those who listen are blessed, and those who write save their anc...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
GEORGE SAVILE Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen
GEORGE SAVILE My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
WILLIAM PENN Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children
WILLIAM PENN Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
CHIEF SEATTLE My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
ERIC CANTONA Responsible people are having their horses treated by their vet every six months with the West Nile ...
ED WEBER The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, som...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have b...
ROGER SCRUTON What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors ha...
WALTER LIPPMANN It's a process that has never slowed. There are still provisions in there for how you have to stable...
KURT KNAUS There are amazing similarities between Forest Danger and his sire, Forestry . Both horses were extre...
BEN TAYLOR If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
JAMES HALLIWELL If wishes were horses, beggers would ride
JOANNE HARRIS Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure ...
JEANNETTE WALLS I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.
WILLY RUSSELL To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blo...
ROBERT T. BAKKER The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been...
THOMAS SOWELL Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here,...
JOE ALEXANDER Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
G. GORDON LIDDY Are we being good ancestors?
JONAS SALK If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride
AMERICAN PROVERB My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu...
TIM MURPHY Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
G. GORDON LIDDY Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whos...
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS If they were going to make us jump our horses that much I would have liked to not have the horses th...
NORMAN DELLO JOIO I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules...
JOSH TURNER I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors,
ZHU RONGJI Our people ask for nothing more than the recognition of citizenship, nothing more than the right to ...
GUILLAUME SORO A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS He's traumatized. All of those horses were his babies.
BOB MARKS If wishes were horses," she murmured, "beggars would ride.
JENNIFER HAYMORE I've got a very willing group of pack mules here.
WENDY LAWRENCE The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pac...
PAUL ENGLE When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
OWEN D. YOUNG A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
CARLENE CARTER The people who boast the most usually have absolutely no idea what they are boasting about.
PETER GRECH Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and th...
BIBLE There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable c...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN All of the rights that our ancestors took centuries to acquire are being squeezed. It causes bother ...
JEAN AUBIGNY I found out I really enjoyed working with horses. I'm still learning. It's always something new. I l...
GREG BOOTH Horses are predictably unpredictable
LORETTA GAGE I think people feel we just sell our horses around the block. They are surprised that we sell our ho...
GREG BOOTH Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even h...
ANNIE LENNOX I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so ...
BO DEREK Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-work...
TONY MCCOY You would be telling my neighbors they would have to load their horses in trailers, bring them aroun...
CHARLES DI BONA I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
OLEG CASSINI Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and ...
EMINEM It was great fun. There were a lot of beautiful horses.
DEBBIE CLARK Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run.
WILD BILL HICKOK It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creature...
LEE BERGER It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creature...
LEE BERGER Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to h...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
DOUG HORTON Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
EMMET FOX Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
DR. EMMIT FOX Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting
EMMET FOX Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
JOHN STEINBECK He who boasts much can do little
AFRICAN PROVERB
More Proverb
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
PROVERB If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
PROVERB Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it w...
PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
PROVERB To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the p...
PROVERB Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB He who does not research has nothing to teach.
PROVERB Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains,...
PROVERB He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
PROVERB No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
PROVERB Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
PROVERB Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
PROVERB When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
PROVERB If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
PROVERB The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
PROVERB Never say die.
PROVERB There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and t...
PROVERB If you wish for peace be ready for war.
PROVERB When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB Peace with a club in hand is war.
PROVERB If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
PROVERB Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB Riches have wings.
PROVERB A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
PROVERB The Devil finds work for idle hands.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
PROVERB The work praises the man.
PROVERB A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
PROVERB