Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not…

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and…

— William James

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

— David Stove

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,…

— Washington Irving

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in…

— Sandra Cisneros

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

— Tom Clancy

Equals make the best friends.

— Aesop

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there…

— David Gemmell

“Fables from before the Anaheiming.”

— William Gibson

Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer…

— Cynthia Ozick

“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered up their…

— Shannon L. Alder

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

— William Allen White

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men…

— Henry George

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott