I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until… — George Muller Copy Share Image
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people… — Eric Van Lustbader 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
I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of you imagination. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. — Bill Haywood Copy Share Image
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“What did the mat say to the door? You must be really aDOORable to open up to everyone who knock at you.… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image