Fables Quotations

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

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.

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

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.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

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

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

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

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

Please all, and you will please none.

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

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

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

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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

Equals make the best friends.

Self-help is the best help

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

A man is known by the company he keeps

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

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.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies.

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes.

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

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

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.

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

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...

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

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

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

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

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

One good turn deserves another.

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

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

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

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

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 would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

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

As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

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

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

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

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

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

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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

By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.

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

If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.

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.

History is fables agreed upon.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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