Fables Quotes

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Please all, and you will please none.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

Don't count your chickens before they egg.

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

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

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

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

History is fables agreed upon.

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

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

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

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

There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

Equals make the best friends.

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.

One good turn deserves another.

A man is known by the company he keeps

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Self-help is the best help

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.