Fables Quotes

Fables Quote of the day

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

Don't count your chickens before they egg.

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

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

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

History is fables agreed upon.

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

Equals make the best friends.

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 knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

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

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

A man is known by the company he keeps

[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.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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.

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

One good turn deserves another.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.