Eva, can I pose as Aesop in a cave?" No, Don.

“Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.”

— Aesop

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

— Anita Brookner

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop…

— Anita Brookner

“Hester shook her head. 'Don't confuse what you do with who you are, dearie. Besides, there's no shame in humble work. Why, Aesop himself,…

— Jonathan Auxier

“Slow and steady wins the race." "That is almost always untrue." "Take it up with Aesop." "Aesop never existed. The stories credited to him…

— Leigh Bardugo

“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when…

— Francis Bacon

“Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the good understand…

— Erica Jong

“I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop 's pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of a chariot…

— Francis Bacon

“Aesop fable. “You can play the clever fox all you want—but you’ll never get the grapes that way.”

— Rolf Dobelli

“One such monster lived around 600 B.C. and was the slave of a Greek nobleman named Iadmon who lived on Samos. This unfortunate was…

— Daniel P. Mannix

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our…

— Michel de Montaigne

I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were…

— Joseph Jacobs