Quotes from Aesop

It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

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

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

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

Persuasion is better than force.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Much wants more and loses all.

Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself, but the winds fall upon me with their gusts and gales, and lash me into a fury that is not natural to me.

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.

Facts speak plainer than words

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.

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

Slow but steady wins the race.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

What is most truly valuable is often underrated.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.