Famous Quotes / Aesop
65 Quotations by Aesop
- 1. A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
- 2. A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then kn ...
- 3. A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before ...
- 4. Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before ...
- 5. An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided be ...
- 6. Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
- 7. Appearances are deceptive.
- 8. Appearances often are deceiving.
- 9. Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
- 10. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- 11. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- 12. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
- 13. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
- 14. Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
- 15. Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both sides before we commit ourselves to either sid ...
- 16. Example is the best precept.
- 17. Familiarity breed contempt.
- 18. Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
- 19. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
- 20. He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.