Quotes from Aesop

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

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

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

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Please all, and you will please none.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

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

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

In trying to please all, he had pleased none.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Little by little does the trick.

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Appearances are deceiving.