Fable Quotes

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What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;… — Edward Gargan
I would by all means have men beware, lest Ã†sop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at… — Francis Bacon
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth. — George Perkins Marsh
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good… — Charles Warren Stoddard
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened… — Joseph Conrad
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize… — Marc Maron
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft:… — Aeschylus
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away. — Richard Crashaw
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when… — Saint Augustine
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. — Jean Cocteau
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the… — James Keller
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and… — Sylvia Plath
The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity. — Richard Carlile
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will… — Henry George
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there… — Felix Frankfurter

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