Quotes About Aesop's Fables

#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. Equals make the best friends.

Aesop

#5. I'm going somewhere where there aren't any women.

Osamu Dazai

#6. I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some of the greatest roles that actors have been able to play haven't been the most endearing on screen.

Dustin Lance Black

#7. Who acts in haste repents at leisure.

Aesop

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

Aesop

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

Aesop

#10. 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

#11. He played with abandon and he looked like a god.

Kylie Scott

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

Aesop

#13. I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

Margaret Cho

#14. We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Ben Sweetland

#15. I discovered windows one afternoon and after that, nothing was ever the same.

Anne Spollen

#16. She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she had begun to hate them. She hated them for making her feel so wretched, when she should be happiest. That happens sometimes.

Katherine Catmull

#17. I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

Thomas Boswell

#19. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Terry Pratchett

#20. Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. True honor celebrates people for who they're not for what they're".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#22. Superficial knowledge leads to a bland, monotonous telling. With authorial knowledge we can prepare a feast of pleasures. Or at the very least, add humor.

Robert McKee

#23. Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Aesop

#25. Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.

John Bytheway

#26. 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