Fables Quotes · Page 3

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

— Abraham Cowley

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

— Richard Brautigan

“Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers" Mirror on the wall: "He reads”

— Bill Willingham

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

— Charles Spurgeon

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

— Ivan Panin

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

— Bill Haywood

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

— Voltaire

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

— Joseph Joubert

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things.…

— Michael Morpurgo

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the…

— Robert Anton Wilson

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified;…

— Alberto Manguel

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy…

— Will Durant

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

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

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

— Edmund White

Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“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

Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from…

— Charles Villiers Stanford

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.…

— Joo Won

Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone…

— Alberto Manguel

The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds…

— Francois Arago

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming…

— Thomas Jefferson

This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all…

— Walt Whitman

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is…

— William Booth

“One day', he said, 'the King of the Butterflies sent an emissary to discover the nature of fire. Some time later the…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

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

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

— Albert Camus

Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The…

— Edward Abbey

My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to…

— Jonathon Keats

“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

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

— Aesop

The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

— Mark Twain

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

— Walt Disney

“If biscuits were stories, I'd bake a pan of piping hot fables right this second." (Bertie)”

— Lisa Mantchev

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

— Thomas Jefferson