Aesop Quotes

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

United we stand, divided we fall.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

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

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

Little by little does the trick.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

Much outcry, little outcome.

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

Much wants more and loses all.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

We learn from the things we suffer.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Please all, and you will please none.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

It pays to be content with your lot.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Implementation beats oration.

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

A kindness is never wasted

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

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.