Aesop Quotes

A kindness is never wasted

Much outcry, little outcome.

It is easy to kick a person when he is down.

Little liberties are great offenses.

The more honor, the more danger.

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

It pays to be content with your lot.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?

I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

Kindness affects more than severity.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.

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

After all is said and done, more is said than done.