This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you… — Kurt Vonnegut 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 in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“ Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy? How many things served us yesterday for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
“Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified;… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them… — Barbara Cooney Copy Share Image
“If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.… — Joo Won Copy Share Image
I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature… — Henry David Thoreau 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
