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

- Charles Evers

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

- Hank Williams

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

- Ron Rash