Aesop Quotes
- We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.
- Much outcry, little outcome.
- Great determination can overcome most odds.
- A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument.
- Equals make the best friends.
- If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
- We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.
- We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.
- A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are…
- An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning…
- While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
- I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
- If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
- Distrust interested advice.
- There can be little liking where there is no likeness.
- The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.
- He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.
- Clumsy jesting is no joke.
- He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.
- Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.