Fables Quotes · Page 2

Natural history is not about producing fables.

— David Attenborough

“SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.”

— Ambrose Bierce

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

— Benjamin Franklin

Equals make the best friends.

— Aesop

History is fables agreed upon.

— Voltaire

Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

— Vincent Schiavelli

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

— Alexander Pope

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

— William Allen White

If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.

— Thomas Paine

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

— Richard Carlile

“How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?”

— Montaigne

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Sandra Cisneros

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible…

— Joseph Addison

the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be…

— Charles Dickens

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is…

— Charles Warren Stoddard

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh,…

— Ambrose Bierce

We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking…

— Alex Abreu

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is…

— Francis Bacon

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

— Thomas Paine

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is…

— Francis Bacon

“The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed-in once,…

— Charles Dickens

“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

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

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most…

— Hypatia

There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is…

— John Wain

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books…

— Dan Brown

I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that…

— Roger Ross Williams

“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

We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian…

— Max Nordau

The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some…

— Mark Twain

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in…

— John Cheever

“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes…

— Plutarch

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

“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have…

— John Adams

“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited…

— Rebecca Solnit

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

— Joseph Addison

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

— Horace Mann

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

— Walt Disney