Aesop Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

  Aesop

  Life, Passion, Fire

  "Aesop's Fables". Book by Aesop (Fable XXXVIII "A Horse and an Asse"),

• once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

  Aesop

  Sweet, Sea, Rivers

• If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

  Aesop

  Hair, Water, Wish

  Aesop (1850). “Fables of AEsop and others”, p.300, Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [and 18 others] ...

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