Quotes About Fable

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Camelot is a silly place.

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding... { Letter to John Adams , April 11, 1823 }

There are no truths, Coyote," I says. "Only stories.

It is not the antiquity of a tale that is an evidence of its truth; on the contrary, it is a symptom of its being fabulous; for the more ancient any history pretends to be, the more it has the resemblance of a fable.

Then he told them another story and it was this story.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Thus did they nurse their folly, as the good wife of Tam O'Shanter did her wrath, "to keep it warm.

As I come to the end of my advice and send you off into the world, I have an alternative way for you to stay on the straight and narrow: periodically watch Groundhog Day. It was made long ago, in 1993, but it's still smart and funny, the chemistry between the stars (Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell) is terrific, and it has a happy ending. Groundhog Day is also a profound moral fable that deals with the most fundamental issues of virtue and happiness.

I remember," someone said, "how in ancient times one could turn a wolf into a human and then lecture it to one's heart's content.

Once an old man, spoken of in one of Aesop's fables, believing himself at death's door, called his twelve sons to his bedside and gave to them a bundle of twelve stout sticks, which he asked them all in turn to break, which task they were unable to do. The father, separating the bundle, gave to each a stick which he readily broke. Now, the moral to be deducted from this fable is eminently applicable to us as an organization, and means that in union there is strength.

K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

It's the story that counts.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Ognuno ha una favola dentro che non riesce a leggere da solo. Ha bisogno di qualcuno che con la meraviglia e l'incanto negli occhi, la legga e gliela racconti.

La vie est faite d'histoires sans queue ni tête: ces fariboles se suivent dans un ordre dont on ne saisit pas la raison; mais on cherche, parbleu, on cherche! Il faudra pourtant s'en contenter; la vie est notre best-seller quotidien. Quant à la morale de la fable, c'est ce que nous découvrirons à la fin, ou que nous n'apprendrons jamais. La vie vaut-elle d'être vécue? Tant mieux si les hasards de l'existence ne nous imposent pas une opinion bien tranchée!

An idea does not need to be true in order to be believed, and the same could be asked about any other myth: Santa Claus, William Tell or Zeus.

Napoleon once said, What is history, but a fable agreed upon? He smiled. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

History is but a fable agreed upon

Three blind mice... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three... blind... mice?

What he had to tell them was a story

"Curiosity killed the cat."

One story deserves another