Quotes About Fables

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Gods and mortals never mixed happily in our stories.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

I've got lots more stories to tell.

Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!

Remember all fairy tales end at some point.

Las fábulas me han enseñado, durante toda mi vida, a distinguir lo verdadero de lo falso, a discernir el bien del mal. En una palabra, fueron los animales los que empezaron a hacerme humana.

There are stories to tell that are not songs.

Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry.

There are no new tales, but we shall always be ready to listen to a new telling of the old ones.

All the truth is held in stories, you know?

Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.

So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.