Quotes About Fable

The wolf cried when the sheep got drenched in rain.

At this third lie, Pinocchio's nose grew so long that he could not even turn around. If he turned to the right, he banged into the bed or windows. To the left, he hit the walls or the door. If he raised his nose, he would poke Fairy's eyes out. Like most liars, he was stuck.

When we transitioned from the PC to the console with 'Fable,' it took us five years to do that. And that's just going from a mouse to a controller.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

I love anything that's mythical, and fantasy is one of my favourite genres.

Magic is at the core of myths.

intentioned myth.

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He was thinking about the boy who cried wolf. Honesty is the best policy. Wasn't that the moral of the story, according to Julian Bashir? Or was it: Never tell the same lie twice.

According to an eastern fable, the rose was white when God created it, but when, as it unfolded, it felt Adam's eyes upon it, it blushed in modesty and turned pink.

A fost odata ca niciodata un incer care zacea pe moarte in ceata. Si un diavol s-a aplecat spe el si i-a zambit.

Legends, then, are seldom formed out of thin air. They grow out of something real. That original something may be extremely different from the final legend, but the kernel of truth is there nevertheless.

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

The teller of the tale is nothing compared to the tale itself.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!" —RON CARLSON

Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It's only our stories about them that ever change.

But history was something that you couldn't trust. It was put together wrong, or copied wrong, or misinterpreted, or improved upon by a man with a misplaced imagination. Truth was so hard to keep, myth and fable so easy to breathe into a life that was more acceptable than truth.

Once upon a time and long ago, in fact so long ago that I couldn't have been there, and I wasn't there, but I'll tell you anyways: once upon a time and long ago...

That the poor little fellow because he lied too often was finally eaten up by a real beast is quite incidental.