“He was stubborn as a mule, clever as a monkey, and nimble as a hare.”
“But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.”
“He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.”
“What's she like? The princess, I mean.""Bullheaded. She's red headed, blue-eyed, and stubborn as a mule.”
“I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.”
“If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.”