Aesop Quotes

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

Facts speak plainer than words

I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Liars often set their own traps.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Pride goes before destruction.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Don't make much ado about nothing.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.