Aesop Men Quotations

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.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

Every man for himself.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

A man is known by the company he keeps

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

Every man should be content to mind his own business.