Quotes on Jackasses

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn.