My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

- George Herbert

A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.

- Kenneth Jay Lane

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

- Michael Leunig

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

- Michael Gough

There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

- Rahman Baba

If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.

- Sholom Aleichem

I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.

- Stephen Mangan

I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

- Tatiana Maslany

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

- Will Forte