Aesop Quotes

None but those who work are entitled to eat. ~ Aesop

The Boys and the Frogs SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us. ~ Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer. ~ Aesop

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

Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have. ~ Aesop

it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings ~ Aesop

Kindness effects more than severity. ~ Aesop

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES. ~ Aesop

Slow but steady wins the race. ~ Aesop

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

The Fox And The Crow
A CROW having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is the Crow," he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of Birds!" This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: "My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting. ~ Aesop

Kindness is more persuasive than force. ~ Aesop

Smash cut to a smoke-bombed quarantine,
Guards like 'all signs correlate with sorcery',
It's more a dormant cell of valor as awoken by the smell of sordid power and defecting shortly after,
Fist bump dry land, brackish, cat nap 15, back to swiss-cheese the flagship,
Uh, blue in the menacing grip of a day for which you're manifestly unfit. ~ Aesop Rock

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

Enemies' promises were made to be broken. ~ Aesop

began to caw her best, but ~ Aesop

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - AESOP ~ Anthony Robbins

What a splendid head, yet no brain. ~ Aesop

And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds. ~ William Carlos Williams

Every tale is not to be believed. ~ Aesop

The Astronomer
AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth? ~ Aesop

Kindness is thrown away upon the evil. ~ Aesop

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. ~ Aesop

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise. ~ Aesop

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty. ~ Aesop

Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes. ~ Aesop Rock

Better no rule than cruel rule. ~ Aesop

Pride goes before destruction. ~ Aesop

Much wants more and loses all. ~ Aesop

What is most truly valuable is often underrated. ~ Aesop

Great determination can overcome most odds. ~ Aesop

Please all, and you will please none. ~ Aesop

If words suffice not, blows must follow. ~ Aesop

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you ~ Aesop

The great do not always prevail. ~ Aesop

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow ... ~ Aesop Rock

United we stand; divided we fall. ~ Aesop

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

Zeal should not outrun discretion. ~ Aesop

An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went
About the foreset with much merriment,
Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks,
Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane
That Raucous voice so petulant and vain,
Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away,
But that I know your old familiar bray'.
That's just the way with asses, just the way. ~ Aesop

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude. ~ Aesop

The appointed day came, the birds assembled before Jupiter's throne; and, after passing them in review, he was about to make the Jackdaw king, when all the rest set upon the king-elect, stripped him of his borrowed plumes, and exposed him for the Jackdaw that he was. ~ Aesop

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. ~ Aesop

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

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account. ~ Aesop

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. ~ Aesop

Now we the American working population
Hate the fact that eight hours a day
Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us.
And we may not hate our jobs,
But we hate jobs in general
That don't have to do with fighting our own causes.
We the American working population
Hate the nine-to-five, day-in day-out
When we'd rather be supporting ourselves
By being paid to perfect the pastimes
That we have harbored based solely on the fact
That it makes us smile if it sounds dope. ~ Aesop

The strong and the weak cannot keep company. ~ Aesop

You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do. ~ Aesop Rock

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. ~ Aesop

The Flies And The Honey-Pot
A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves." Pleasure bought with pains, hurts. ~ Aesop

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards. ~ Aesop

I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily. ~ Aesop Rock

The gods help them that help themselves. ~ Aesop

After the rain cometh the fair weather. ~ Aesop

Appearances are deceptive. ~ Aesop

Wealth unused might as well not exist. ~ Aesop

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn't sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. ~ Aesop Rock

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

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both ~ Aesop

There is admittedly an incredible mystique to meddling in the reason a city won't sleep. ~ Aesop Rock

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. ~ Aesop

Only cowards insult dying majesty. ~ Aesop

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ~ Francis Bacon

Once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet. ~ Aesop

Once a wolf, always a wolf. ~ Aesop

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains. ~ Aesop

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long. ~ Aesop

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

A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument. ~ Aesop

Vices are their own punishment ~ Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop

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

Sleep and sleep well; sleep with a sacred array of fevers,
Wake as a pertinent version of a pipe dreamer. ~ Aesop Rock

Fair weather friends are not worth much. ~ Aesop

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

Example is more powerful than precept. ~ Aesop

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic ~ Aesop Rock

I am for such a League [of Nations] provided we don't expect too much from it. . . . I am not willing to play the pan which even Aesop held up to derision when he wrote of how the wolves and the sheep agreed to disarm, and how the sheep as a guarantee of good faith sent away the watchdogs, and were then forthwith eaten by the wolves. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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

If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning. ~ Aesop

False friends leave you in times of trouble. ~ Aesop

It is useless attacking the insensible. ~ Aesop

The more you want, the more you stand to lose ~ Aesop

No act of kindness is ever wasted. ~ Aesop

It is possible to have too much of a good thing. ~ Aesop

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. ~ Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences. ~ Aesop

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize. ~ Aesop

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any. ~ Aesop

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance. ~ Aesop

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction ~ Aesop

A Man and his Wife had the good fortune to possess a Goose which laid a Golden Egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the whole store of precious metal at once. But when they cut it open they found it was just like any other goose. Thus, they neither got rich all at once, as they had hoped, nor enjoyed any longer the daily addition to their wealth. ~ Aesop

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. ~ Aesop

Better poverty without care, than riches with. ~ Aesop

Facts speak plainer than words ~ Aesop

Those who suffer most cry out the least. ~ Aesop

Appearances may be deceiving. ~ Aesop

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Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever. ~ Aesop Rock