AESOP QUOTES VII

Greek storyteller (620 B.C.-564 B.C.)

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

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"The Traveller and His Dog", Aesop's Fables


Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

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"The Seaside Travellers", Aesop's Fables

Tags: anticipation, reality


They that know how to suspect, without exposing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much.

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"The Cat and the Mice", Aesop's Fables

Tags: suspicion


The value is in the worth, not in the number.

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"The Lioness", Aesop's Fables

Tags: value


The more honor, the more danger.

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"The Mice and the Weasels", Aesop's Fables

Tags: honor, danger


I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

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"The Man and the Satyr", Aesop's Fables


Might makes right.

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"The Wild Ass and the Lion", Aesop's Fables

Tags: strength


A false tale often betrays itself.

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"The Fox and the Monkey", Aesop's Fables

Tags: lying


We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

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Fables

Tags: enemies


It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

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Fables

Tags: passion


Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

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"The Two Frogs", Aesop's Fables


I am sure the grapes are sour.

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"The Fox and the Grapes", Aesop's Fables


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

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Fables

Tags: principle


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

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"The Aethiop", Aesop's Fables


The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

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"The Widow and the Sheep", Aesop's Fables


Example is more powerful than precept.

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"The Crab and Its Mother", Aesop's Fables