Quotes About Aesop

#1. 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

#2. In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Anita Brookner

#3. I can't move. I'm paralyzed in the middle of the street, like the donkey in that Aesop's fable who couldn't choose between the bales of hay. They'll find me in years to come, still frozen to the spot, clutching my credit card.

Sophie Kinsella

#4. It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

Francis Bacon

#5. Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way.

Rolf Dobelli

#6. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - AESOP

Anthony Robbins

#7. Remember Aesop's Tale of the Traveler Please note: The wind failed To make him Shed his coat It was the sun That won. (88)

Jayne P. Bowers

#8. The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Giacomo Leopardi

#9. 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

#10. Eva, can I pose as Aesop in a cave?"
No, Don.

Jon Agee

#11. And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.

William Carlos Williams

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Think I none so simple would say that Aesop lied in the tales of his beasts: for who thinks that Aesop writ it for actually true were well worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of.

Philip Sidney

#16. Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

Anita Brookner

#18. Slow and steady wins the race.

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

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#20. Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

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#21. Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

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#22. All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.

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#23. Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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#24. The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?

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

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#26. Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

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

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

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#29. Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.

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#30. What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

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

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#32. Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

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#33. Fair weather friends are not worth much.

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#34. Do not attempt too much at once.

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#35. The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"

Aesop Rock

#36. After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Aesop

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

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#38. Self-help is the best help

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

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#40. Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

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#41. Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

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#42. Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself, but the winds fall upon me with their gusts and gales, and lash me into a fury that is not natural to me.

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#43. The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

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#44. Every tale is not to be believed.

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

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

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#47. He that has many friends, has no friends.

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#48. It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

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#49. Slow but steady wins the race.

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#50. Like will draw like.

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#51. Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

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#52. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

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#53. I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!

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#54. 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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#55. It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

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#56. The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

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

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#58. You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

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#59. If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

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#60. Great determination can overcome most odds.

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#61. A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

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#62. Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

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#63. If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

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

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#65. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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

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#67. It pays to be prepared.

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#68. There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was

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#69. Zeal should not outrun discretion.

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#70. Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

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

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#72. began to caw her best, but

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#73. Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.

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#74. We often despise what is most useful to us.

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

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#76. A false tale often betrays itself.

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#77. The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

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

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#80. If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

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#81. Being a good example teaches others to be good.

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#82. it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings

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

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#84. We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

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#85. The great do not always prevail.

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#86. The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

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#87. Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

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#88. Liars often set their own traps.

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#89. I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child.

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#90. Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

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#91. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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#92. A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

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#93. Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today.

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

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#95. The more you want, the more you stand to lose

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#96. If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter. I think it gets to musicians' heads a lot of the time. Just because people like your records doesn't mean what you have to say is going to be interesting.

Aesop Rock

#97. No act of kindness is ever wasted.

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#98. What is most truly valuable is often underrated.

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#99. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

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

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