Fables Quotes

• Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

  Charles Spurgeon

  Labels, Too Much, Christianity

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• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Truth, Two Sides

  Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28

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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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• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

  Aesop

  Reality, Focus And Concentration, Shadow

  "Aesop's Fables".

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• He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

  Aesop

  Life, Wisdom, Giving

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables - Illustrated in Black and White By Nora Fry”, p.119, Read Books Ltd

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• People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

  Aesop

  Relationship, People, Greed

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.41, Pelekanos Books

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• Self-help is the best help

  Aesop

  Life, Self, Helping

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

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• Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

  Aesop

  Silly, Clothes, May

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

  Aesop

  Courage, Distance, Army

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Desire, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.125, Harvard University Press

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• Please all, and you will please none.

  Aesop

  Business, Literature, Approval

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.63, Pelekanos Books

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• 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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• When all is said and done, more is said than done.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Football, College

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2011

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• We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

  Aesop

  Mean, Giving, Enemy

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A man is known by the company he keeps

  Aesop

  Life, Men, Inspirational Presidential

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.109, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

  Hypatia

  Children, Pain, Believe

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• All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Character, Exaggeration Is

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

  William Feather

  Wise, Age, Folks

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• How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Faith, Thinking

  "The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p.104, 1989.

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Pelekanos Books

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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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  Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wise

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.36

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