Fables Quotes

• Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Historical, Literature

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• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

  Irwin Edman

  Business, Communication, Men

  "The world, the arts and the artist".

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• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Bullying, Conceited

  Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press

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• Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

  Aesop

  Hurt, Cry

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Penguin

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

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

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• Don't count your chickens before they egg.

  Ross O'Donovan

  Eggs, Chickens, Hatching

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• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Memories, Writing History

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• Natural history is not about producing fables.

  David Attenborough

  Natural, Natural History

  "Sir David Attenborough reveals a pacemaker and knee replacement surgery have given him a 'new lease of life'" by Claire Murphy, www.mirror.co.uk. November 6, 2016.

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• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  Aesop

  Being Yourself, Bird, Aviation

  "The Jay and the Peacock". A fable by Aesop,

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

  Aesop

  Life, Wisdom, Winning

  Aesop (1989). “Aesop's Fables”, Outlet

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• Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Secular Society

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• I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Writing, Literature, Break

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• 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.

  Aesop

  Men, Feel Good, Enemy

  Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.107

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• Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspiring, Kindness, Inspiration

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

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• There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Men, Here And There

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.31, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  Play, Pieces, Nine

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• From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Nature, Men, Doubt

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Squares, Miracle, Church

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• Put your shoulder to the wheel.

  Aesop

  Life, Civilization, Wheels

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• Equals make the best friends.

  Aesop

  Friendship

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.117, GENERAL PRESS

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• Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

  Aesop

  Fake Friends, Ruined, Betray

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.18, GENERAL PRESS

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• A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

  Aesop

  Liars, Lying, Literature

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.44, Pelekanos Books

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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

  Aesop

  Peace, Stress, Food

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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• One good turn deserves another.

  Petronius

  Turns, Deserve

  Petronius Arbiter (1999). “The Satyricon”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA

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