Jackass Number

Famous quotes containing the words jackass and/or number:

    The women take so little stock
    In what I do or say
    They’d sooner leave their cosseting
    To hear a jackass bray....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)