“As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. — Horace Mann 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
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury 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
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
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
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
A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around… — Karl Pilkington 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
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
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
The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge 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
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
“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
“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also… — Thomas Aquinas 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
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
I love 'Jungle Book' and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.” — Patrick W. Carr Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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