All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. — Aesop Copy Share Image
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?” — Montaigne Copy Share Image
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron Copy Share Image
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
In this strange world called Earth, I have run into dead things that seemed to be alive; and living ones that seemed… — Jean-Paul Malfatti 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
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed… — Northrop Frye 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
“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
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
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty… — Robert Aris Willmott 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
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with… — Alvin R. Dyer 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
“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
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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