Aesop Quotes

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

Each person has his strong point.

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

Equals make the best friends.

Most arguments are useless.

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Persuasion is better than force.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

A word in season is most precious.

He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

The gods help them who help themselves.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

Distrust interested advice.

Appearances are deceiving.

Appearances may be deceiving.

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.

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

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Self-help is the best help

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.