Aesop Quotes

The great do not always prevail.

Do not attempt too much at once.

If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

Every tale is not to be believed.

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

Obscurity often brings safety.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

Appearances are deceptive.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today.

Kindness effects more than severity.

False friends leave you in times of trouble.

Obscurity brings safety.

Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

Plodding wins the race.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

A man is known by the company he keeps

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

The more you want, the more you stand to lose

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

Appearances may be deceiving.

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

Every man for himself.