Fables Quotes

“Fables from before the Anaheiming.”

— William Gibson

The bearers of fables are very welcome.

— Monique Wittig

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

Natural history is not about producing fables.

— David Attenborough

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

— Tom Clancy

One good turn deserves another.

— Petronius

Don't count your chickens before they egg.

— Ross O'Donovan

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

— Sappho

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

— Richard Carlile

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

— Richard Whately

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

— Barry Hughart

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

— William Allen White

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

— Alexander Pope

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Thomas Paine

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets…

— Thomas Aquinas

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and…

— Frederick The Great

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a…

— Thomas Jefferson

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even…

— George Perkins Marsh

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

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat…

— Peter Benchley

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed…

— George Meredith

“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin…

— Edward Clodd

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

— Roger Ross Williams

A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white…

— Stan Brakhage

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

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

— Hypatia

My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination…

— Robert McKee

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

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

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

— Max Nordau

“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

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

— John Cheever

The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

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

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— Hypathia of Alexandria

But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant…

— Bertrand Russell