Best Fables Lines
140 Fables quotes by 119 unique authors
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So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in…
— Robert Herrick
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Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has…
— Thomas Paine
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One writes fables in periods of oppression.
— Italo Calvino
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
— Edmund White
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Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and…
— Joanna Lumley
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We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
— Peter Benchley
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Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In this strange world called Earth, I have run into dead things that seemed to be alive; and living ones that seemed to have no…
— Jean-Paul Malfatti
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History is fables agreed upon.
— Voltaire
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If I'm with my friends, and they'll be like, 'Oh, hey, where's your dad? Let's go say hi.' And I'll be like, 'Oh, no. He's…
— Jaden Smith
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Of them are some who listen unto thee, but we have placed upon their hearts veils, lest they should understand, and in their ears a…
— Quran
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With a heart of gold, and a look so nice, I met a girl who had angel eyes. Her smile so precious like a jewel…
— Quenecia Dean (Queen)
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Saints born together to fight against their holy fables The streets are where we pray Hymns for the lonely, wretched and forgotten The feeling in…
— Nikislonelyfornow
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