Aesop Fables Quotes

#1. I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.

Joseph Jacobs

#2. what were the odds of going to a party where the host's best friend returned from vacation as a vampire? And this close to a Mohiri stronghold? I really was a disaster magnet.

Karen Lynch

#3. Equals make the best friends.

Aesop

#4. All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.

Sam Haskins

#5. The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence for a cover-up of Paul's having died in a car accident.

Jared C. Wilson

#6. Who acts in haste repents at leisure.

Aesop

#7. Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

#8. Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Aesop

#9. You're worried about your mother dying, aren't you," Leah said, putting her cheek on my forearm. "I can tell."
For a moment I hesitated, but I could hear the call for intimacy in her voice, the desire for me to let her enter those grottoes where I tended my own fear of my mother's illness.

Pat Conroy

#10. Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him.

Andrew Pettegree

#11. I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Michael Morpurgo

#12. Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Aesop

#13. [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

Frank Harris

#14. I can see through the human heart, and I know that life's biggest prize is to have the day before you as yours alone to do with as you wish.

Morrissey

#15. When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#16. Many children are naturally picky eaters. It may even be genetic, or developmental. But given a range of healthy choices, children will choose a balanced diet - so long as junk food isn't included in the mix. Children are tempted by sweets and fried food just as much as we are.

Joanna Faber

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

Aesop

#18. Kye had scowled and said, "I don't like you anymore; you didn't come back when you said you would." Then he'd wrapped himself around her leg and said, "Okay, I forgive you." The kid didn't hold a grudge long.

Suzanne Wright