It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.