Aesop Quotes

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

Equals make the best friends.

Don't go looking for trouble.

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Necessity knows no law.

Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

Each person has his strong point.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Distrust interested advice.

One story sounds good until another is told

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

Appearances are deceiving.

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

A word in season is most precious.

Example is more powerful than precept.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

He that has many friends, has no friends.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Self-help is the best help

We learn from the things we suffer.

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

Being a good example teaches others to be good.

The gods help them who help themselves.

Much wants more and loses all.

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

It is useless attacking the insensible.

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Better poverty without care, than riches with.

All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.

Implementation beats oration.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Harm seek, harm find.

The memory of a good deed lives.