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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
Augustus
3.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
Polybius
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An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.
Stephen Jay Gould
5.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb
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History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.
I. F. Stone
7.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
John Ford
8.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
Anais Nin
10.
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
Frank McCourt
11.
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
Gregory Peck
13.
Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
Lauren Miller
14.
For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
Harold Pinter
17.
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
Barbara Corcoran
18.
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
J. R. R. Tolkien
19.
...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.
Ian Brown
20.
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
Duane Gish
21.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. Lovecraft
24.
Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.
Rick Wakeman
25.
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
Nelly Sachs
26.
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Charles de Lint
27.
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
W. H. Auden
29.
A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
John Grisham
30.
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
Thomas More
32.
A false tale often betrays itself.
Aesop
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Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.
Socrates
34.
For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power
Carlos Castaneda
36.
I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
Natalia Kills
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Every tale is not to be believed.
Aesop
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary
39.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
V. S. Pritchett
40.
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
Ivan Turgenev
41.
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
Neil Jordan
42.
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
Jane Yolen
43.
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
Bertrand Tavernier
44.
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.
Digger Phelps
45.
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
Joan Chen
46.
Edinburgh is an experience
A city of enormous gifts
Whose streets sing of history
Whose cobbles tell tales.
Alan Bold
47.
Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence
48.
The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
Johann Kaspar Lavater