Fables Quote by William Allen White Download Open image “I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.” — William Allen White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fables President Slang Written
I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people,… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up, that is… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Fable' is that it was such a rich world. It was, well, what the name says it is. It's all about… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.” — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the… — William Allen White Copy Share
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today… What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely,… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked… — William Allen White Copy Share
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered up their bed, Yet he prayed for the spirit in the wind and God’s mysteries to find, And in the end it was her transparent heart that stole his restless mind, It really was no contest, not a… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“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 submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.” quote by Henry George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68e/henry-george-8103_absurd_no-theory-is-too-false-no-fable-too-absu_70212.jpg)
![“We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.” quote by David Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af7/david-gemmell-1821_believe_we-are-full-of-dreams-we-long-for-the-un_94239.jpg)
![“[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a46/sandra-cisneros-862_borges_jorge-luis-borges-had-short-stories-and_102630.jpg)
