Quotes by Fabulists - Page 2

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
Aesop
In everything one must consider the end.
Jean de La Fontaine
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Jean de La Fontaine
All roads lead to Rome but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
Jean de La Fontaine
Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
Phaedrus
Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.
Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.
Jean de La Fontaine
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine
Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.
Aesop
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
Aesop
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Aesop
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine