[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun. — Josephine de Beauharnais Copy Share Image
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers" Mirror on the wall: "He reads” — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and… — Richard Crashaw Copy Share Image
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is… — William Booth Copy Share Image
“One day', he said, 'the King of the Butterflies sent an emissary to discover the nature of fire. Some time later the… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
“I’m surprised a person with your experience in telling elaborate fables should have difficulty in thinking up such a simple tale, but… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
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