Aesop Quotes & Sayings

#1. Slow and steady wins the race.

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#2. Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

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#3. The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

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#4. Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

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#5. The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.

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#6. It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

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#7. Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

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#8. Self-help is the best help

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#9. There is always someone worse off than yourself.

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#10. Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

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#11. The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.

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#12. Like will draw like.

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#13. A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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#14. One story is good, till another is told.

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#15. To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

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#16. Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

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#17. Zeal should not outrun discretion.

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#18. It is easy to despise what you cannot get

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#19. began to caw her best, but

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#20. All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

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#21. A false tale often betrays itself.

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#22. There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

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#23. There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

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#24. it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings

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#25. If words suffice not, blows must follow.

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#26. People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

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#27. One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

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#28. I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

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#29. Better to starve free than be a fat slave

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#30. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB A Wolf came upon a Lamb straying from the flock,

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#31. Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

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#32. The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

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#33. It is absurd to ape our betters.

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#34. Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

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#35. Much wants more and loses all.

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#36. Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.

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#37. Example is the best precept.

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#38. We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

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#39. Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.

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#40. If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

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#41. My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.

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#42. None but those who work are entitled to eat.

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#43. Appearances may be deceiving.

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#44. He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

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#45. Only cowards insult dying majesty.

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#46. Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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#47. Little by little does the trick.

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#48. If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

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#49. Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

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#50. In union, there is strength.

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#51. Appearances are often deceiving.

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#52. Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

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#53. Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

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#54. The value is in the worth, not in the number.

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#55. Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

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#56. Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

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#57. No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

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#58. Please all, and you will please none.

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#59. Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

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#60. The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!

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#61. He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

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#62. We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

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#63. The gods help them who help themselves.

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#64. No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

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#65. Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

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#66. Once a wolf, always a wolf.

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#67. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

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#68. Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

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#69. Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

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#70. Kindness is more persuasive than force.

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#71. A man who looks to his friends for help will take his time about a thing.

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#72. Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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#73. The more honor, the more danger.

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#74. Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten

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#75. Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

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#76. Better no rule than cruel rule.

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#77. Much outcry, little outcome.

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#78. Don't make much ado about nothing.

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#79. Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

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#80. Example is more powerful than precept.

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#81. United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

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#82. It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

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#83. Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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#84. Plodding wins the race.

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#85. They were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the

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