Fable Quotes
88 quotes by 79 authors
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at…
— Francis Bacon
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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
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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
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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
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Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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
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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
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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already…
— Walt Whitman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.
— Richard Carlile
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Fable Quotes
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