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Quotes About Fable

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.
~ Philip Pullman
Once upon a time, is how stories begin...
~ N'Zuri Za Austin
Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can.
~ A.D. Posey
many people break themselves against. This principle can be easily understood by remembering Aesop's fable of the goose and the golden egg. This fable is the story of a poor farmer who one
~ Stephen R. Covey
I love a really good storyline.
~ Jim Broadbent
Büyükler birtak?m masallar anlat?yorlar ve çocuklar?n her anlatt?klar?na inand?klar?n? düÅŸünüyorlar.
~ José Mauro de Vasconcelos
The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
~ Ernest Cline
A hand has five fingers each one of unequal length so also in life its good to follow the moral of the goldilocks and the three bears story-my opinion.
~ Ernest Hello
Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures
~ Beverly Gray
Dear brother, do not drink, she began; but she was too late, for her brother had already knelt by the stream to drink, and as the first drop of water touched his lips he became a fawn. How the little sister wept over the enchanted brother
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
Humans who believe they have outrun their undead pursuers might do well to remember the story of the tortoise and the hare, adding, of course, that in this instance the hare stands a good chance of being eaten alive.
~ Max Brooks
But here the correlation with Beauty and the Beast ends. In the fable, the beauty kisses the beast. In the Bible, the beauty does much more. He becomes the beast so the beast can become the beauty. Jesus changes places with us. We, like Adam, were under a curse, but Jesus changed places with us and put himself under that curse (Gal. 3:13).
~ Max Lucado
It's always the story that interests me.
~ Vincente Minnelli
Mythology is what never was, but always is.
~ Bob Drury
What you took to be improvement was degeneration. When you thought that you were impressing us most by your smart sayings and doings, you were reminding us most of the fable about the donkey trying to play lap-dog. And it wasn't even an honest, straightforward donkey at that!
~ Harold Frederic
As Kipling said, that's another story...
~ Harper Lee
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story
~ Haruki Murakami
'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.
~ Kenneth Branagh
The cubs looked into Mama's eyes, then at each other, and then they began to tell one of the biggest whoppers that has ever been told in Bear Country.  
~ Stan Berenstain
What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
~ Isabel Allende
I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.
~ Shane Carruth
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
~ Carl Sagan
Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.
~ Barry Hughart
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
~ C. S. Lewis