Aesop S Fables Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Here I am, wasting away inside
a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is
stay in the story.
If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on
earth she would ever trade a single second of the world
she's in for the one in which I'm stuck

Jodi Picoult

#5. Equals make the best friends.

Aesop

#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. 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

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

Aesop

#11. The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

Paul Feyerabend

#12. I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Carl Icahn

#13. He was so damned happy to see her, he frowned. She smiled back.

Julie Garwood

#14. I have worked with a lot of kids. Most of them have been really lovely. But there are a lot of trappings.

Ron Eldard

#15. Rebecca let out a gusty sigh. "Pregnant, I tell you. I'm definitely getting pregnant." Her mother responded by passing over the tearful little guy. Not a bad idea, Jane decided. Birth control by baby brother

Christie Ridgway

#16. Keep a spur handy.

Meg Mims

#17. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science.

Carl Sagan

#18. The first quote that goes through your mind is what you have been conditioned to think. What you think next defines who you are.

Anonymous

#19. My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

Albert Brooks

#20. After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

Bob Ney

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

Aesop

#22. I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

Lucy Punch

#23. 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

#24. We sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.

Brian Henson