Fables Quote by Joseph Addison

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

— Benjamin Franklin

Well, the most incredible thing about 'Fable' is the fact that there are lots of examples where people play the game in a certain…

— Peter Molyneux

When you write a business fable, people get caught up in the story and don't get judgmental about what you're teaching them. If you're…

— Ken Blanchard

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

— Jeanette Winterson

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.…

— Hypatia

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

— Abraham Cowley

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

— Henry David Thoreau

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

— Italo Calvino

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.”

— Jules Verne

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

— Yann Martel