If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity. — Richard Carlile Copy Share Image
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.” — Patrick W. Carr Copy Share Image
A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These are stories you hear... of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will happen to you.… — Nimrat Kaur Copy Share Image
Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories… — Lawrence Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Most of Aesop’s fables have many different levels and meanings. There are those who make myths of them by choosing some feature… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Going Gone Over stone walls and barns, miles from the black-eyed Susans, over circus tents and moon rockets you are going, going.… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity;… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron Copy Share Image
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?” — Montaigne Copy Share Image
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
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