Tales Quotes

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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Fairy tales are more than true.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

Dead men tell no tales.

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

As one tale ends, so another begins.

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

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?

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.